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It is currently managed by the non-profit Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy which purchased the lighthouse in 1986 and has restored it. The conservancy manages the nature trail leading to the lighthouse, offers two bed and breakfast rooms and public tours. A small museum displays artifacts of the original lighthouse and the restoration efforts ...
Here are New York's most picturesque towns, five of them here in the Hudson Valley ... Saugerties has a picturesque lighthouse, just like Kingston. The lighthouse was built in 1869 at the Esopus ...
The Saugerties Lighthouse, which still operates, also now doubles as a bed and breakfast. Saugerties is also home to a quintessential small-town commercial district, which sprawls across the ...
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.
The first lighthouse in the state was erected in 1792 (the first Cape Henry Light) and it is the oldest surviving structure; the last, Chesapeake Light, was built in 1965 (ignoring automated towers erected later). The tallest extant tower is that at Cape Charles Light.
Saugerties (/ ˈ s ɔː ɡ ər t iː z /) is a town in the northeastern corner of Ulster County, New York. The population was 19,038 at the time of the 2020 census , a decline from 19,482 in 2010 . The village of the same name is located entirely within the town.
There was some debate about whether the lighthouse is New York or Connecticut. It was originally the state of New York, not Connecticut, which ceded the area on which the lighthouse is located to the federal government, [7] but most modern official maps place it within Connecticut's side of Long Island Sound by about 1,000 feet (300 m). [8]
In 1868, a new lighthouse was built, with kerosene lamps. In 1933, an automatic revolving light was installed. When the lighthouse was in use, the caretaker used the Old Field village hall as a home. [4] The U.S. government gave it back to Old Field in 1935, with the proviso that the government can take it back in case of a national emergency.