Cedar Island Light

Cedar Island Light
Cedar Island Light

Location	Cedar Point County Park, Sag Harbor, Gardiners Bay, Long Island
Coordinates	41°2′26.9″N 72°15′39.5″W / 41.040806°N 72.260972°W / 41.040806; -72.260972Coordinates: 41°2′26.9″N 72°15′39.5″W / 41.040806°N 72.260972°W / 41.040806; -72.260972
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

Cedar Island Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Cedar Island Lighthouse at Cedar Point County Park
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.

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
↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. Archived from the original on 2007-06-01.
↑ Smithsonian lighthouse postcards

External links

Media related to Cedar Point Lighthouse (Northwest Harbor, New York) 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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