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• Clark, Admont G., Lighthouses of Cape Cod--Martha's Vineyard--Nantucket: Their History and Lore (Hyannis, Massachusetts: Parnassus Imprints, Inc., 1992)
• Clifford, J. Candace and Mary Louise, Nineteenth-Century Lights: Historic Images of American Lighthouses (Alexandria, Virginia: Cypress Communications, 2000)
• Clifford, Mary Louise, and J. Candace Clifford, Women Who Kept the Lights: An Illustrated History of Female Lighthouse Keepers, 2nd edition (Alexandria, Virginia: Cypress Communications, 2001)
• DeWire, Elinor, Guardians of the Lights (Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, 1995)
• _____________, Guide To Florida Lighthouses (Englewood, Florida: Pineapple Press, 1987)
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• _________, The Lighthouses of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1991)
• Holland, F. Ross, Jr., America's Lighthouses: An Illustrated History (New York: Dover Publications, 1981 reprint)
• ________________, Great American Lighthouses (Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1989)
• ________________, Maryland Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay: An Illustrated History (Crownsville, Maryland: Maryland Historical Trust, 1997)
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• Hyde, Charles, The Northern Lights (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State Univeristy Press, 1995)
• Johnson, Robert Erwin, Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the
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• ________________, Georgia's Lighthouses and Historical Coastal Sites (Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, 1998)
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