New Format and Clues for Portsmouth Harbor Light Letterbox
New Format and Clues for Portsmouth Harbor Light Letterbox
Letterbox
Name: PORTSMOUTH HARBOR LIGHT
Location: Fort Constitution, New Castle, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Placed by: Lonemasswolf and You Inspire My Spirit on 05/06/01
For photographs and history of this light please visit http:www.lighthouse.cc/portsmouth
Terrain: Easy
Driving Directions:
I95 North to Portsmouth
Exit 6,
US Route 1 South
US Route 1 to NH Route 33 East
NH Route 33 to South Street (on
right)
South Street to US Route 1A
South
US Route 1A to US 1B (on to Newcastle
Island)
Cross over drawbridge, (note interesting renovation
on left.)
Follow US 1B to entrance to Fort Constitution
Historical Site (be alert, its easy to miss)
Park in designated area just before Coast Guard
Station.
Follow Blue Line to Fort
Constitution.
Letterbox
Clues:
Once inside the fort, find the flat white stone at
which the lighthouse lies at a bearing of 195O, the descriptive sign for the lighthouse lies at a
bearing of 170O, and the
descriptive sign for the mine house lies at a bearing of 315O
.
Sit on this stone and gaze at the
harbor.
To your left, under some stones covering its
niche
Lies the Portsmouth Harbor Light
Letterbox.
NOTICE AS OF 09/11/01 THE COAST GUARD HAS CLOSED DOWN THIS SITE. THE LETTERBOX WILL BE UNAVAILABLE UNTIL PRESENT SITUATIONS CHANGE.
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