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.
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History
The United States purchased Cedar Island in 1834, for $200.[1] The property, then described as a "sandspit", was three acres.
The 40 foot 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]
The United States Treasury sought buyers for the Island in 1936.[1] By 1936 erosion had reduced its area to just under one acre.
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "CEDAR ISLAND OFFERED FOR SALE BY TREASURY; Gardiner's Bay Lighthouse Tower Is Included in Offer by Morgenthau.". The New York Times (Washington, DC): p. 51. 1936-12-12. https://www.nytimes.com/1936/12/13/archives/cedar-island-offered-for-sale-by-treasury-gardiners-bay-lighthouse.html. Retrieved 2021-08-17. "The Treasury sought a purchaser today for Cedar Island and its 67-year-old nine-room house and lighthouse tower, a half mile off Cedar Point, L.I."
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. Archived from the original on 2007-06-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20070601171611/http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
- ↑ Smithsonian lighthouse postcards Archived July 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
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- Lighthouses completed in 1839
- East Hampton (town), New York
- Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Lighthouses in Suffolk County, New York
- Tourist attractions in Suffolk County, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York
- Italianate architecture in New York (state)
- 1839 establishments in New York (state)
