A fact from Long Tail Point Light appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Long Tail Point Light survived attempts to demolish it in 1870, and has outlasted both its successors?
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The Coast Guard pages on these lights are not a model of clarity. There are a number of places making claims for priority on the first light, but they are hedged, and after looking at the dates of other lights, I have decided to omit any such claims. I could not determine the ultimate fate of the light: the NOAA charts don't go back quite far enough to record the destruction of the third light and while there is a light on a tower in about the right spot, it appears to move around from chart to chart. It's possible that there was a tower mounted on the crib which has since been replaced by a different tower at a slightly different location.
The USCG records all of these lights as "Tail Point Light" but nearly every other reference refers to them as "Old Tail Point Light" with the name of the successor lights sometimes given as "Tail Point Light". Rather than make two pages I've grouped them all together. Mangoe (talk) 14:01, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
