Horse Island Light, also known as Sackets Harbor Light, is located on Horse Island in

Sackets Harbor Sackets Harbor (earlier spelled Sacketts Harbor) is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States, on Lake Ontario. The population was 1,450 at the 2010 census. The village was named after land developer and owner Augustus Sackett, who ...

, Jefferson County in New York on

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. In July 2017 the 24-acre island was acquired for preservation by the

Civil War Trust The American Battlefield Trust is a charitable organization (501(c)(3)) whose primary focus is in the preservation of battlefields of the American Civil War, the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 through acquisition of battlefield land. T ...

, aided by a grant from the National Park Service. This was the first grant in the United States made for a War of 1812 site under the NPS battlefield grants program.Maritime Heritage Program as a "Lighthouse to Visit" and as one of New York's Historic Light Stations.National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of NY Historic Light Stations
/ref> A modern steel skeletal tower replaced the lighthouse as an

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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 story Queen Anne/

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

brick house. There was also a barn and oil house on the property. During the

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States, United States of America and its Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom ...

, the British used Horse Island as a staging area before the Battle of Sackett's Harbor. In July 2017, the 24-acre Horse Island, located near the village, was acquired for preservation by the

, aided by a grant from the

National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propert ...

. It was the site of a War of 1812 engagement. This was the first time in the US that a grant from the American Battlefield Land Grant program has been used to preserve a War of 1812 site."Campaign 1776 Announces First Battlefield Preservation Victories in New York State"
Civil War Trust The lighthouse keeper at one time was Schuyler Shibley Simmons. ncestry.com/ref>

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Lighthouse Friends site
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