Cedar Island Light
Cedar Island Light
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| Location | Cedar Point County Park, Sag Harbor, Gardiners Bay, Long Island |
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| Year first constructed | 1839 |
| Year first lit | 1839 |
| Automated | 1934 |
| Deactivated | 1934 |
| Foundation | Masonry pier |
| Construction | Granite |
| Tower shape | Square unpainted granite |
| Height | 30 feet (9.1 m) |
| Focal height | 57 feet (17 m) |
| Original lens | Sixth order Fresnel 1855 |
| Range | 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) |
| Characteristic | Fl G 4s - Flashing Green 4 s |
| ARLHS number | USA-147 [1] |
| USCG number | 1-28245 |
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Cedar Island Lighthouse
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Cedar Island Lighthouse at Cedar Point County Park
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| Nearest city | Sag Harbor, New York |
| Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built | 1868 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP Reference # | 03000248[2] |
| Added to NRHP | April 18, 2003 |
Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton, New York. It overlooks Gardiners Bay.
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History
The 40-foot (12 m) granite lighthouse was decommissioned in 1934 and replaced by an automatic light on a steel skeleton at breakwater. The lighthouse, built in the Italianate style, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
Cultural
The Archives Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a collection (#1055) of souvenir postcards of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online. These include postcards of Cedar Island Light[4] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
References
- ↑ ARLHS World List of Lights
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- ↑ Smithsonian lighthouse postcards
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons- Cedar Island Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com
- Suffolk County Park Site
- National Park Service List of New York Lighthouses
- U. S. Lighthouse Society’s The Keeper’s Log – Winter, 2007
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