Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in
Cedar Point County Park in
East Hampton,
New York. It overlooks
Gardiners Bay.
History
The granite lighthouse was decommissioned in 1934 and replaced by an automatic light on a steel skeleton at breakwater. The lighthouse, built in the
Italianate style, is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
Cultural
The Archives Center at the
Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a collection (#1055) of souvenir
postcard
A postcard or post card is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically rectangular, intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. Non-rectangular shapes may also be used but are rare.
In some places, one can send a postcard f ...
s of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online. These include postcards of Cedar Island Light
with links to customized nautical charts provided by
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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.
References
External links
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Cedar Island Lighthouse- from Lighthousefriends.com
Suffolk County Park Site
U. S. Lighthouse Society’s The Keeper’s Log – Winter, 2007
Lighthouses completed in 1839
East Hampton (town), New York
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Lighthouses in Suffolk County, New York
Tourist attractions in Suffolk County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York
Italianate architecture in New York (state)
1839 establishments in New York (state)
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