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    listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 as the Poverty Island Light Station. In 1864, the railroad connection between Escanaba and Negaunee...
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  • structures are the Poverty Island Light Station (1875), an abandoned lighthouse and outbuildings which are in disrepair. Poverty Island is currently owned...
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    the Squaw Island light obsolete, and the station was abandoned. The lighthouse deteriorated over many years of neglect until Squaw Island passed into...
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    Cana Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the town of Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The Cana Island Light is on the east...
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    They found a lantern room on nearby Poverty Island which had been removed from the Poverty Island Light Station there and was sitting on the ground next...
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    The Passage Island Light Station is a lighthouse located 3.25 mi (5.23 km) NE of Isle Royale, in NW Lake Superior, Michigan on Passage Island. It was listed...
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    Batanes (redirect from Batanes Islands)
    Retrieved March 31, 2018. "Batanes Islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2024. Retrieved October 16, 2024. "Poverty incidence (PI):". Philippine...
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    the poverty line, including 40.0% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over. The mysterious 1999 death of Bald Head Island police...
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    of Summer Harbor on the Northwest side of [Summer Island]" (ref David S. Brose (1970), "Summer Island III: An Early Historic Site in the Upper Great Lakes"...
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    borough borders the Atlantic Ocean on Long Beach Island and is home to Barnegat Lighthouse. Barnegat Light was formed as a borough by the New Jersey Legislature...
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    Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy is an 1879 book...
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    Grassy Island Light is a lighthouse located on Grassy Island, Michigan. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard...
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    In the US those with low income living in cities face a problem called “poverty transportation.” The problem arises because many of the entry-level jobs...
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    Great Lakes. Point Iroquois includes a larger geographic area than the light station site. It was named for the Iroquois warriors massacred there by the...
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    Huron Island Light is a lighthouse on Lake Superior near Big Bay, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Huron Islands Lighthouse...
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    with centralized light commercial and light industrial areas. Merritt Island owes its name to the King of Spain. The entire island was part of a land...
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    end of the island by the State of Connecticut, which overlooked the waters between Fishers Island and Little Gull Island. The Race Rock Light was constructed...
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    The Manitou Island Light Station is a lighthouse located on Manitou Island, off the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. It was listed...
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    Turtle Island Light is a deactivated lighthouse located on Turtle Island in Lake Erie. The small island is divided between the U.S. states of Michigan...
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    David Farragut just a few hundred yards from Dauphin Island's shore. The first Sand Island Light, authorized in 1834, was replaced by a structure 150...
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    Nantucket (redirect from Nantucket Light)
    December 13, 1966); Expanded to encompass the entire island in 1975. Brant Point Light Station—Brant Point (added October 28, 1987) Jethro Coffin House—a...
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    Skid row (category Poverty in Canada)
    poverty. Initially more predominately Chinese when it was established and active in the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, it became a red-light district...
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  • (0.38 km2) of the island as the Manitou Island Light Station Preserve. Test pits have been found on the island, hinting at a short-lived past as a possible...
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    Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 14,532 at the 2020 census. However, during the summer months...
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    the eastern terminus at the Montauk Point Light. The hamlet was also served by a station of the Long Island Rail Road, located just east of Broadway between...
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    design is used at Manitou Island Light in Lake Superior. It was equipped with a third order Fresnel lens. In 1968, the light was replaced with a DCB-224...
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    Service is stationed at the Fire Island Light and Fire Island National Seashore. The United States Coast Guard has a base on Fire Island and provides...
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    limits include the island of Vinalhaven, the largest of the Fox Islands, and smaller islands, some accessible from Vinalhaven Island by bridge or causeway...
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    Copper Harbor Light (and Copper Harbor Front Range Light), Gull Rock Light Station, Manitou Island Light Station, and Mendota (Bete Grise) Light. The township...
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  • Pipe Island Light is a privately owned lighthouse on Pipe Island in St. Mary's River, Michigan. It was lit in 1888 by the Lake Carriers Association to...
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