Thirty Mile Point Light is a lighthouse on the south shore of

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, New York. It is part of Golden Hill State Park, a

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. 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. The lighthouse is listed in the

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as NY-6154. There are three photos available in the survey.Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
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in 1984. 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. There was one lighthouse chosen on each of the

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. The four other lighthouses were Split Rock Light on

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, St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan,

Spectacle Reef Light Spectacle Reef Light is a lighthouse east of the Straits of Mackinac and is located at the northern end of Lake Huron, Michigan. It was designed and built by Colonel Orlando Metcalfe Poe and Major Godfrey Weitzel, and was the most expensiv ...

on Lake Huron, and Marblehead Light on

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.Postage stamp artwork, Marblehead Lighthouse Stamp.
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Friends of Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse

Lighthouse Friends site

US-Lighthouses.com
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Lighthouses of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail

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