Thirty Mile Point Light Explained
| Location: | Lake Ontario |
| Coordinates: | 43.375°N -78.4864°W |
| Yearbuilt: | 1876 |
| Automated: | 1959 |
| Yeardeactivated: | 1959-1998 |
| Foundation: | Limestone Block |
| Construction: | Limestone |
| Shape: | Square |
| Marking: | Natural w/ White, Black and Red Lantern |
| Lens: | Third Order Fresnel lens |
| Characteristic: | Flashing White 10s (Fl W 10s) |
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Thirty Mile Point Light is a lighthouse on the south shore of Lake Ontario in Niagara County, New York.[1] It is part of Golden Hill State Park, a New York state park.[2] 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 Historic American Buildings Survey as NY-6154. There are three photos available in the survey.[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places 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.[4] [5] There was one lighthouse chosen on each of the Great Lakes. The four other lighthouses were Split Rock Light on Lake Superior,[6] St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron,[7] and Marblehead Light on Lake Erie.[8]
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) .
- 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
Notes and References
- http://wlol.arlhs.com/lighthouse/USA844.html ARLHS
- Web site: Golden Hill State Park . NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation . February 14, 2016.
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny0976 Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- http://www.lighthousestampsociety.org/webstamps/uns2973a.jpg Stamp images, Great Lakes Lighthouses.
- http://www.postagestampart.com/Thirty-Mile-Point-Lighthouse-p73.html Postage stamp artwork, Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse Stamp.
- Web site: 2006-05-07 . Split Rock Lighthouse gifts by Harmony Designs (Bookmarks, Paperweights, Magnets and more.) . https://web.archive.org/web/20060507220122/http://www.harmonydesigns.com/product/detail.php?catalogNumber=2969 . 2006-05-07 . 2023-10-13 .
- http://www.postagestampart.com/Spectacle-Reef-Lighthouse-p71.html Postage stamp artwork, Spectacle Reef Lighthouse Stamp.
- http://www.postagestampart.com/Marblehead-Lighthouse-p72.html Postage stamp artwork, Marblehead Lighthouse Stamp.
