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The lighthouse stood on a shoal in 8 feet of water, being built on six wood piles, with cast iron sleeves, and had two fender-piles, one up and the other down stream. The fixed white light was first exhibited on July 15, 1872. In 1891 it was reported that the structure had been struck several times
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In 1893 the establishment of numerous post lights in the St. Johns River above and below the Dames Point
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on the shoals off Dames Point, St. John's River in the State of
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