Tibbetts Point Light
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| image_name = Tibbettspoint.JPG
| location = Tibbetts Point on Lake Ontario at the St Lawrence River
| coordinates = {{coord|44|6|00|N|76|22|12|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| yearbuilt =
| yearlit = 1854
| automated = 1981
| foundation = Natural/Emplaced
| construction = Brick/Stucco
| marking = White w/ Black Lantern
| height = {{convert|58|ft}}
| focalheight = {{convert|69|ft}}
| lens = Fourth Order Fresnel lens
| range = {{convert|16|nmi}}
| characteristic = Occulting White (Oc W 10s)
| module = {{Infobox NRHP|embed=yes
| name = Tibbetts Point Light
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| image =
| caption =
| location= Cape Vincent, New York
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| built = {{Start date|1854}}
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| added = July 19, 1984
| area = {{convert|5|acre}}
| mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000182.pdf U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR]
| refnum = 84002412{{NRISref|version=2013a}}
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File:Tibbits Point Lighthouse02.jpg
The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is located in Cape Vincent, New York. The land upon which the lighthouse stands is a part of a {{convert|600|acre|adj=on|0}} grant of land to Captain John Tibbetts of Troy, New York.{{cite uscgll|7||}} The lighthouse is a circular tower that stands {{convert|69|ft}} 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.[http://www.uscg.mil/history/docs/CG_Classical_Lens_in_Operation.pdf United States Coast Guard, Fresnel Lenses Still in Operation.] {{webarchive|url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090325232007/http://www.uscg.mil/history/docs/CG_Classical_Lens_in_Operation.pdf |date=2009-03-25 }}
Tibbetts Point Light is on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail. It 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{{Cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/lighthouses/object.cfm?id=20 |title=Smithsonian lighthouse postcards |access-date=2009-01-10 |archive-date=2010-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311051806/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/lighthouses/object.cfm?id=20 |url-status=dead }} with links to customized nautical charts provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Notes
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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}}.
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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) {{ISBN|1-55046-399-3}}
External links
- {{commons category-inline|Tibbetts Point Light}}
- {{ARLHS link}}
- [https://archive.today/20121214045651/http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/light/tibbetts.htm Tibbetts Point information from the National Park Services Maritime Heritage Program]
- [http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/tibbets.html Tibbetts Point information from the Lighthouse Getaway]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121031554/http://www.seawaytrail.com/05_lighthouses.asp Lighthouses of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail]
- [http://www.capevincent.org/lighthouse/lighthouse_001.htm Tibbetts Point Lighthouse ]
- [http://www.lighthousefriends.com/ Lighthouse Friends site]
- {{cite uscghist|NY}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070816065719/http://www.nps.gov/history/MARITIME/light/ny.htm National Park Service Historic Lighthouses]
- [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090325232007/http://www.uscg.mil/history/docs/CG_Classical_Lens_in_Operation.pdf USCG list of Fresnel lenses still in operation] December 2008
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Category:Lighthouses completed in 1854
Category:Houses completed in 1854