Thirty Mile Point Light

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Thirty Mile Point Light
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Thirty Mile Point Light
Location Lake Ontario
Coordinates 43°22′30″N78°29′11″W / 43.37500°N 78.48639°W / 43.37500; -78.48639
Tower
Constructed1876
FoundationLimestone Block
ConstructionLimestone
Automated1959
Height61 feet (19 m)
ShapeSquare
MarkingsNatural w/ White, Black and Red Lantern
HeritageNational Register of Historic Places listed place  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Light
First lit1998  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Deactivated1959-1998
Focal height71 feet (22 m)
LensThird Order Fresnel lens
Characteristic Flashing White 10s (Fl W 10s)
Thirty Mile Point Light
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1875 (1875)
MPS U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
NRHP reference No. 84003922 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1984

Thirty Mile Point Light is a lighthouse on the south shore of Lake Ontario in Niagara County, New York. [2] [3] It is part of Golden Hill State Park, a New York state park. [4] The lighthouse is open to the public. It gets its name because it is the point 30 miles east of the Niagara River. The lighthouse was built in 1875 of hand-carved stone. The old tower is being restored.

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The lighthouse is listed in the Historic American Buildings Survey as NY-6154. There are three photos available in the survey. [5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]

Thirty Mile Point Light was one of five lighthouses chosen for the "Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" postage stamp series designed by Howard Koslow in 1995. [6] [7] There was one lighthouse chosen on each of the Great Lakes. The four other lighthouses were Split Rock Light on Lake Superior, [8] St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron, [9] and Marblehead Light on Lake Erie. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ARLHS
  3. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
  4. "Golden Hill State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  5. Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
  6. Stamp images, Great Lakes Lighthouses.
  7. Postage stamp artwork, Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse Stamp. [ permanent dead link ]
  8. "Split Rock Lighthouse gifts by Harmony Designs (Bookmarks, Paperweights, Magnets and more.)". web.archive.org. 2006-05-07. Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  9. Postage stamp artwork, Spectacle Reef Lighthouse Stamp. [ permanent dead link ]
  10. Postage stamp artwork, Marblehead Lighthouse Stamp. [ permanent dead link ]

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