Tibbetts_Point_Light

Tibbetts Point Light

Tibbetts Point Light

Lighthouse

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

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Tibbetts Point Lighthouse

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 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 [4] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Notes

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. [2]
    Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
  3. [3]
    United States Coast Guard, Fresnel Lenses Still in Operation. Archived 2009-03-25 at Archive-It
  4. [4]
    "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
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