Tibbetts Point Light

The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is located in Cape Vincent (town), New York. The land upon which the lighthouse stands is a part of a grant of land to Captain John Tibbetts of Troy, New York. The lighthouse is a circular tower that stands above the water

The current lighthouse was constructed in 1854.

The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.

Its Fresnel lens is still used. Only 70 such lenses are still operational in the United States, 16 being on the Great Lakes of which two are in New York.United States Coast Guard, Fresnel Lenses Still in Operation.

Tibbetts Point Light is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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 Tibbetts Point Light Smithsonian lighthouse postcards
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Notes

References

DeWire, Elinor, "Tibbets Point Lighthouse." Mariners Weather Log (Fall 1991), pp. 30–31.

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) .
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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)

External links

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Tibbetts Point information from the National Park Services Maritime Heritage Program




Lighthouses of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail



Lighthouse Friends site
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USCG list of Fresnel lenses still in operation
December 2008

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Lighthouses completed in 1854
Houses completed in 1854
1854 establishments in New York (state)
Lighthouses in Jefferson County, New York