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Cedar Island Light
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Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton, New York. It overlooks Gardiners Bay.
Key Information
History
[edit]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.[2][3]
Cultural
[edit]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[4] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008. Archived from the original on June 1, 2007.
- ^ James Warren (August 2002). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Cedar Island Lighthouse. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 27, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
- ^ "Lighthouse Postcards - Cedar Island". Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Archived from the original on July 8, 2009.
External links
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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
- Plans of Lighthouses and Related Structures, ca. 1817–ca. 1996: Cedar Island Lighthouse, 1888-1972
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