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Thanks to a gift from Nancy Burgess, and her dad, Robert Hoth, we now have a 1950 ‘United States Coast Guard Radiobeacon System Great Lakes’ map to add to our collections. The Plum Island Station was one of the synchronized distance-finding commercial radio communications stations (Class C, 20-mile range) that served the bulk-carriers (iron ore, coal, petroleum, cement and limestone) boats and freighters on the Great Lakes. It was established May 3, 1940 and discontinued in