Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton, New York. It overlooks Gardiners Bay.
History
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]
Cultural
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[3] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
References
- ^ "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. 2008-04-15. Archived from the original on 2007-06-01.
- ^ "Lighthouse Postcards - Cedar Island". Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08.
External links
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
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