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base is stout 15 in diameter end 20 feet tall, made of reinforced 
concrete it once had a door in it tut this has teen walled up. The 
tower had a large trass light on it tut this has fallen off andbreken. 
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In 1962 the Coast Guard added a concrete slqb on top of the oldtower 
base and then tuilt a circler block column on top to bring it tack to 
the original height. 
North of the t»4«r is the remains of the town known as Itascatown. 
The “town* 1 consists of a low stone wall inclosure about 50 yards wide, 
which is 3- sided, being incomplete on the east side. The mein entrance 
thr nigh the enclosure faces the boat landing to the west. An old rusty 
iron cannon gourds this entrance. There are the remains of 3 buildings 
in the town, 2 of native stone with most of the walls collapsed, end a 
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corrugated metal building which i s all collapsed. Near the mets! 
building is the remains of a storm shelter dated 1940, end seme sick 
walks in the area are dated 1936. From the north side of the enclosure 
a straight path runs to the old door in the light house, end over the 
door is a stone plaque bearing this inscription ”larhart Beacon 1937”. 
The dominant vegetation of the island is a low coarse grass which 
grows in clumps like broom sedg at house. There is a lot of 
puncture vine on the island and a low succulent shrub is plentful also. 
At many places the bare rock forms almost the sole ground cover, and 
in other places it is broken into small slobs. A series of ravines runs 
in a north-south direction on the east side of the island behind 
Itascatown. In these revines and in a lere clump behind the light house, 
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ere the trunks of a long dead stand of trees. There is one large plant 
in the ravine and also a large bush in Itascatown, but these are the only 
