Throgs Neck Light

Throgs Neck Light

Throgs Neck Lighthouse in the Bronx, New York, USA was a wooden lighthouse that was replaced by an iron skeletal tower that is still there. The lighthouse protects ships in the Long Island Sound from running up against the rocks

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* [http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=752 Throgs Neck Lighthouse] - from Lighthousefriends.com
* [http://www.lighthousemuseum.org/nylights/throgs.htm Throgs Neck Lighthouse] - at the National Lighthouse Museum


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