- Oak Orchard Light
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Oak Orchard Light Location On Lake Ontario, at Point Breeze in New York Coordinates 43°22′16″N 78°11′35″W / 43.37111°N 78.19306°W Year first constructed 1871 Deactivated 1916 ARLHS number USA-559[1] Oak Orchard Light was a lighthouse that operated on the shores of Lake Ontario, in New York, United States, at Point Breeze from 1871 to 1916. In 2010 a local community group built a historically accurate replica of the lighthouse near the original site.[2]
References
- ^ "Oak Orchard Light ARLHS USA-559". ARLHS World List of Lights. The Weidner Publishing Group. 2003. http://wlol.arlhs.com/lighthouse/USA559.html. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ "The Oak Orchard Lighthouse is Built!". Oak Orchard Lighthouse. http://www.oakorchardlighthouse.com/index.php. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
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.
- Scott T. Price. "U. S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/History/weblighthouses/h_lhbib.asp.
- 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 1550463993
External links
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHNY.asp.
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