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Fog cannon at Brewster Light is oldest artifact in the Coast Guard

By Billy Baker

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 15, 2012

Last summer, a Coast Guard officer was taking a tour of Boston Light, when a particular artifact caught his eye. There are a lot of old things at Boston Light – home of the nation’s first and oldest light station, built in 1716 a mile off the coast of Hull – but one artifact seemed particularly old in a particular way. The item in question was a 293-year-old fog cannon, fired to warn mariners when the light was obscured.

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