Cedar Island Light Explained

Location:	Cedar Point County Park, Sag Harbor, Gardiners Bay, Long Island
Coordinates:	41.0408°N -72.261°W
Yearbuilt:	1839
Yearlit:	1839
Automated:	1934
Yeardeactivated:	1934
Foundation:	Masonry pier
Construction:	Granite
Shape:	Square unpainted granite
Lens:	Sixth order Fresnel 1855
Characteristic:	Fl G 4s - Flashing Green 4 s
Module:	Embed: yes Cedar Island Lighthouse Built: 1868 Architecture: Italianate Added: April 18, 2003 Refnum: 03000248

Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton, New York. It overlooks Gardiners Bay.

History

The 40feet granite lighthouse was decommissioned in 1934 and replaced by an automatic light on a steel skeleton at breakwater. The lighthouse, built in the Italianate style, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

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 Cedar Island Light^[2] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

External links

• • • Cedar Island Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com
• Suffolk County Park Site
• National Park Service List of New York Lighthouses
• U. S. Lighthouse Society’s The Keeper’s Log – Winter, 2007

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Register Information System . 2008-04-15 . National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070601171611/http://www.nr.nps.gov/ . 2007-06-01 .
2. Web site: Lighthouse Postcards - Cedar Island . Smithsonian National Museum of American History . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708030016/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/lighthouses/object.cfm?id=46 . 2009-07-08.