Tibbetts Point Light
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| Location | Tibbetts Point on Lake Ontario at the St Lawrence River |
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| Foundation | Natural/Emplaced |
| Construction | Brick/Stucco |
| Automated | 1981 |
| Height | 58 feet (18 m) |
| Shape | Conical frustum |
| Markings | White w/ Black Lantern |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1854 |
| Focal height | 69 feet (21 m) |
| Lens | Fourth Order Fresnel lens |
| Range | 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) |
| Characteristic | Occulting White (Oc W 10s) |
Tibbetts Point Light | |
| Location | Cape Vincent, New York |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | 1854 |
| MPS | U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002412[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 19, 1984[2] |
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The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is located in Cape Vincent, New York. The land upon which the lighthouse stands is a part of a 600-acre (243 ha) grant of land to Captain John Tibbetts of Troy, New York.[3] The lighthouse is a circular tower that stands 69 feet (21 m) above the water
The lighthouse was constructed in 1854. 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.[4]
Tibbetts Point Light is on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cultural
[edit | edit source]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[5] with links to customized nautical charts provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Notes
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References
[edit | edit source]DeWire, Elinor, "Tibbets Point Lighthouse." Mariners Weather Log (Fall 1991), pp. 30–31.
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Oleszewski, Wes. Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
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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) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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- 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
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- National Park Service Historic Lighthouses
- USCG list of Fresnel lenses still in operation December 2008
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