White Island # 3
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
White Island # 3
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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WHITE
(NH)
Named for "Shoaler" Capt. Joseph White, born in 1750 and murdered in Salem, MA in 1830. Site of one of only two lighthouses on the NH coast. Lighthouse station established in 1789. Writer Celia Thaxter lived here in the 1840s until she was 12 when her father was lighthouse keeper. She later wrote about her experience on White Island in her books and poems including "Among the Isles of Shoals, published in 1873. Current lighthouse built in 1859 and automated in 1987, now solar powered. Lighthouse tower is 58 feet high and 82 feet above sea level. White is one-tenth of a mile long with 30 foot cliffs on one side and connects to Seavey's by a "tombola" visible at low tide. White Ledge is nearby.
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October 23rd, 2015
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