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 600-acre (240 ha) grant of land to Captain John Tibbetts of Troy, New York.[2]
The lighthouse is a circular tower that stands 69 feet (21 m) 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.[3]
Tibbetts Point Light is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cultural
The Archives Center at the
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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Notes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
- Archive-It
- ^ "Smithsonian lighthouse postcards". Archived from the original on 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
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) 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
External links
Media related to Tibbetts Point Light at Wikimedia Commons- Tibbetts Point Light on the World List of Lights
- Tibbetts Point information from the National Park Services Maritime Heritage Program
- Tibbetts Point information from the Lighthouse Getaway
- Lighthouses of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
- Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
- Lighthouse Friends site
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- National Park Service Historic Lighthouses
- USCG list of Fresnel lenses still in operation December 2008
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