Cedar Island Light
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.[1]
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[2] 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. 2008-04-15. Archived from the original on 2007-06-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20070601171611/http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
- ↑ Smithsonian lighthouse postcards Archived July 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
External links
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- 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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- Lighthouses completed in 1839
- East Hampton (town), New York
- Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Lighthouses in Suffolk County, New York
- Tourist attractions in Suffolk County, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York
- Italianate architecture in New York (state)
- 1839 establishments in New York (state)
