Crown Point Light

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Crown Point Light

Champlain Memorial Lighthouse, November 2010
Location	on Crown Point on Lake Champlain
Coordinates	44°01′48″N 73°25′18″W / 44.0299°N 73.4216°W / 44.0299; -73.4216
Tower
Construction	stone
Height	55 feet (17 m)
Shape	circular colonnade
Light
First lit	1858
Deactivated	1926
Lens	Fifth-order fresnel lens

The Crown Point Light on Lake Champlain is a former lighthouse at Crown Point, New York, that now exists as a memorial to the exploration of the lake by Samuel de Champlain.

Requests for a light to mark the point date as far back as 1838, but the original light on this site was erected in 1858 by Ellis and O'Neil, along the same lines as the

, a 1730s - 1750s fort at the tip of the peninsula. The octagonal stone tower and attached keeper's dwelling remained in use, essentially unchanged, into the early 20th century.

The tercentenary of Champlain's explorations of the lake provided the occasion for celebrations marking the event, and commissions from

of New York.

The memorial served as an active lighthouse for only fourteen years. In 1926 its light was extinguished, and a small skeleton tower was erected immediately adjacent to the water. In 1931 construction of the

aid to navigation

.

• "Crown Point Light". lighthousefriends.com. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
• "Crown Point Lighthouse". Cyber Lighthouses. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
• Holland, Frances Ross (1981). America's Lighthouses: An Illustrated History. Brattleboro, VT: S. Greene Press. p. 181.
  ISBN 9780486255767
  . Retrieved 2008-05-20.

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
  .
• Price, Scott T. "U. S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
• 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