Cedar Island Light
Lighthouse
41°2′26.9″N 72°15′39.5″W / 41.040806°N 72.260972°W / 41.040806; -72.260972
Cedar Island Lighthouse
Cedar Island Lighthouse at Cedar Point County Park
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.[2]
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[3] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. Archived from the original on 2007-06-01.
- ^ "Lighthouse Postcards - Cedar Island". Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08.
External links
Media related to Cedar Point Lighthouse (Northwest Harbor, New York) at Wikimedia Commons- Cedar Island Light on the World List of Lights
- Cedar Island Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com
- Suffolk County Park Site
- National Park Service List of New York Lighthouses Archived 2007-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
- U. S. Lighthouse Society’s The Keeper’s Log – Winter, 2007
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Lighthouses of New York
- Ambrose Tower
- Aunt Phebe Rock
- Barber's Point
- Barcelona
- Blackwell Island
- Bluff Point
- Braddock Point
- Buffalo Light
- Buffalo Harbor North and South entrance Lights
- Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light
- Buffalo North breakwater East end Light
- Buffalo North Breakwater South End Light
- Cape Vincent
- Carleton Island
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- Charlotte–Genesee
- Cold Spring Harbor
- Coney Island
- Coxsackie
- Crossover Island
- Crown Point
- Cumberland Head
- Dunkirk
- East Charity Shoal
- Eatons Neck
- Elm Tree Beacon
- Esopus Meadows
- Execution Rocks
- Fair Haven
- Fire Island
- Fort Niagara
- Fort Lafayette
- Fort Tompkins
- Fort Wadsworth
- Frenchman Island
- Galloo Island
- Gardiners Point
- Horse Island
- Horton Point
- Hudson-Athens
- Huntington Harbor
- Kings Point
- Latimer Reef
- Little Gull Island
- Little Red
- Montauk Point
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- New Dorp
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- Oak Orchard
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- Old Orchard Shoal
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- Orient Point
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- Plattsburgh Beacon
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- Prince's Bay
- Race Rock
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- Split Rock Point
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- Statue of Liberty
- Stepping Stones
- Stony Point (Henderson)
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- Stuyvesant
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- Thirty Mile Point
- Three Sisters Island
- Throgs Neck
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- Turkey Point
- Watervliet
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