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Saybrook Breakwater Light
Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse is a sparkplug lighthouse in Connecticut, United States, at Fenwick Point at the mouth of the Connecticut River near Old Saybrook, Connecticut. It is featured on the state's "Preserve the Sound" license plates.
"That outer lighthouse is the symbol of Old Saybrook," town First Selectman Michael Pace said in 2007, when the town was making plans to buy the lighthouse from the federal government.
The lighthouse is also known simply as "Breakwater Light" or "Outer Light". It is one of two built off Lynde Point in the nineteenth century. The other lighthouse, known as Lynde Point Light or more commonly as "Inner Light", is 75 years older than this lighthouse. The two lighthouses mark the harbor channel at the mouth of the Connecticut River.
The Saybrook Breakwater Light forms an integral part of what has been referred to as "lighthouse alley" — a system of navigational safety points along Chimney Point and Fenwick Point that provided secure access to small vessels entering the Connecticut River [^2^]. It stands proud today as one among a few remaining spark-plug styled lighthouses dotted along New England's seacoast.
The construction process for erecting the Saybrook Breakwater took some time. The original breakwater was constructed between 1874 and 1877 under President Ulysses Grant's administration. However, it wasn't until several years later that Congress appropriated funds for its completion.
Designed by Francis Hopkinson Smith, an author of 'Caleb West' and an experienced civil engineer who contributed to constructing the base for The Statue of Liberty, he drew plans out using selected brownstone from local quarries 3. The material chosen for this light was reflective of others built during this era on the East Coast simplex Americana framework.
A cast-iron lantern atop a round tower served as the light source for passing ships. Originally fitted with a fourth-order Fresnel lens that emitted red flashes every twenty seconds[^4^], it was later upgraded to modern optic lights emanating automated beacon signals distinguished by two seconds flash after every six seconds.
Saybrook Breakwater Light, through years of its operational history, underwent a series of modifications both in terms of its physical acquisition and technical changes in lighting apparatuses. Initially run by specially appointed lighthouse keepers, it was fully automated by 1959[^5^].
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Saybrook Breakwater Light
Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse is a sparkplug lighthouse in Connecticut, United States, at Fenwick Point at the mouth of the Connecticut River near Old Saybrook, Connecticut. It is featured on the state's "Preserve the Sound" license plates.
"That outer lighthouse is the symbol of Old Saybrook," town First Selectman Michael Pace said in 2007, when the town was making plans to buy the lighthouse from the federal government.
The lighthouse is also known simply as "Breakwater Light" or "Outer Light". It is one of two built off Lynde Point in the nineteenth century. The other lighthouse, known as Lynde Point Light or more commonly as "Inner Light", is 75 years older than this lighthouse. The two lighthouses mark the harbor channel at the mouth of the Connecticut River.
The Saybrook Breakwater Light forms an integral part of what has been referred to as "lighthouse alley" — a system of navigational safety points along Chimney Point and Fenwick Point that provided secure access to small vessels entering the Connecticut River [^2^]. It stands proud today as one among a few remaining spark-plug styled lighthouses dotted along New England's seacoast.
The construction process for erecting the Saybrook Breakwater took some time. The original breakwater was constructed between 1874 and 1877 under President Ulysses Grant's administration. However, it wasn't until several years later that Congress appropriated funds for its completion.
Designed by Francis Hopkinson Smith, an author of 'Caleb West' and an experienced civil engineer who contributed to constructing the base for The Statue of Liberty, he drew plans out using selected brownstone from local quarries 3. The material chosen for this light was reflective of others built during this era on the East Coast simplex Americana framework.
A cast-iron lantern atop a round tower served as the light source for passing ships. Originally fitted with a fourth-order Fresnel lens that emitted red flashes every twenty seconds[^4^], it was later upgraded to modern optic lights emanating automated beacon signals distinguished by two seconds flash after every six seconds.
Saybrook Breakwater Light, through years of its operational history, underwent a series of modifications both in terms of its physical acquisition and technical changes in lighting apparatuses. Initially run by specially appointed lighthouse keepers, it was fully automated by 1959[^5^].
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