Oak Orchard Light

Oak Orchard Light
Oak Orchard Light
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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 / 43.37111; -78.19306
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

  1. ^ "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. 
  2. ^ "The Oak Orchard Lighthouse is Built!". Oak Orchard Lighthouse. http://www.oakorchardlighthouse.com/index.php. Retrieved 26 April 2011. 

Further reading

  • 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

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