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The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Penfield Reef Lighthouse in 1990. [ 1 ] [ 12 ] In 2015, the Coast Guard executed a substantial rehabilitation project at the lighthouse, designed by architect Marsha Levy of the Coast Guard's Civil Engineering Unit Providence, to address the damage from Hurricane Sandy.
New Presque Isle Light and lighthouse historical marker. In the 1990s this lighthouse was given an additional course of brick. Thus, its girth is wider and the light does not look as 'trim' as it once did in old photographs. [6] The property was leased to the county as Presque Isle Park, and eventually they were given full control of it in 1998.
The Sands Point Lighthouse is located in the Incorporated Village of Sands Point in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The fourth lighthouse to be established on Long Island, this 1809 stone tower was built by an American Revolutionary War veteran who stayed on as its ...
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1885 photo of lighthouse, when it was still upright. The Sharps Island Light is the third lighthouse to stand nearly 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest from the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. [2] The structure is best known today for evoking the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a condition caused by an ice floe in 1977.