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This Week in Block Island's history, January 26, 1936: Completion of Block Island’s Coast Guard Station

By Robert M. Downie | Jan 26, 2013

This week in history 77 years ago — in January 1936 — the Coast Guard Station at the New Harbor channel was completed and began operation.

Located at a waterfront site that did not even exist a half-century earlier, the building was the culmination, ...

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