Horse Island Light
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| Location | Horse Island in Sackets Harbor |
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| Year first constructed | 1831[1] |
| Year first lit | 1870 |
| Automated | 1957 |
| Deactivated | 1957 |
| Foundation | Limestone |
| Construction | Brick |
| Tower shape | Square |
| Markings / pattern | White w/ Black Lantern |
| Original lens | Fifth Order Fresnel lens |
| ARLHS number | USA-380 [2] |
| USCG number | Replacement: 7-1850 [3] |
Horse Island Light, also known as Sackets Harbor Light, is located on Horse Island in Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County in New York on Lake Ontario.
History
Horse Island Light is listed on the National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program as Lighthouse to visit [4] and as one of New York's Historic Light Stations.[5]
A modern steel skeletal tower replaced the lighthouse as an Aid to Navigation in 1957, and the lighthouse and property were sold. It is now in private hands and not open to the public. The keepers quarters were built in 1870, and consisted of a 1 1⁄2 story Queen Anne/Italianate brick house. There was also a barn and oil house on the property.
During the War of 1812, the British used Horse Island as a staging area before the Battle of Sackett's Harbor.
Lighthouse keeper at one time: Schuyler Shibley Simmons[6]
References
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- ↑ ARLHS World List of Lights
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- ↑ National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of Historic Light Stations
- ↑ National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of NY Historic Light Stations
- ↑ ancestry.com
Further reading
- Oleszewski, Wes. Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
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- U.S. Coast Guard. Historically Famous Lighthouses (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1957).
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia. Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3
External links
- Lighthouse Friends site
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- National Park Service Historic Lighthouses
- NPS Horse Island
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