• Source: Cedar Island Light
    • 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.


      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 with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.


      References




      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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