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This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of New York as identified by the United States Coast Guard. "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
Aquebogue (/ ˈ æ. k w ə ˌ b ɑː ɡ /) is a census-designated place (CDP) roughly corresponding to the hamlet by the same name in the Town of Riverhead in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The CDP's population was 2,438 at the 2010 census.
The site selected was the St. George Coast Guard Station, a National Register of Historic Places listing and a city landmark, and the former location of the New York Marine Hospital and the Staten Island Quarantine War. [1] [2] On November 9, 2001, the New York State Board of Regents issued a charter to the National Lighthouse Center and Museum ...
1798, March 14: $13,250 was appropriated for the lighthouse to be built. 1798, June 16: Ten acres were bought from John Gardiner for $500. 1798, July 2: President John Adams authorized construction of the light. 1798, December 6: Construction of the lighthouse was completed. 1799, January 1: The light was first lit.
Cumberland Head Light is a lighthouse on Lake Champlain's Cumberland Bay in New York state. [1] The lighthouse was established in 1838 and the tower was first lit in 1868. The lighthouse was deactivated in 1934. The foundation of the lighthouse is concrete and limestone and the lighthouse itself is made out of limestone. The shape of the tower ...
Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light, also known as the South Buffalo Southside Light or Buffalo South Breakwater, South Entrance Light Station, is a lighthouse at Stony Point at the entrance to Buffalo Harbor, Buffalo, New York. It was established in 1903 and deactivated in 1993. It was replaced by a nearby modern post light.
No group was identified under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act as willing and able to preserve the Old Orchard Shoal Light, and on June 5, 2008, the General Services Administration placed the light up for sale via an auction. The initial bid was $10,000 and the light finally closed on August 27, 2008 at a final bid of $235,000.
Sodus Outer Light is a lighthouse at the end of the western of the two piers defining the channel from Lake Ontario into Sodus Bay, New York, first established in 1858.In 1938, the wood tower was replaced with the current cast iron structure, and the light was converted from kerosene to electricity.