Tibbetts Point Light Explained

Location:	Tibbetts Point on Lake Ontario at the St Lawrence River
Coordinates:	44.1°N -76.37°W
Yearlit:	1854
Automated:	1981
Foundation:	Natural/Emplaced
Construction:	Brick/Stucco
Shape:	Conical frustum
Marking:	White w/ Black Lantern
Lens:	Fourth Order Fresnel lens
Characteristic:	Occulting White (Oc W 10s)
Module:	Embed: yes Tibbetts Point Light Added: July 19, 1984 Mpsub: U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR Refnum: 84002412

The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is located in Cape Vincent, New York. The land upon which the lighthouse stands is a part of a 600acres grant of land to Captain John Tibbetts of Troy, New York. The lighthouse is a circular tower that stands 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.^[1]

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

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) .
  • 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)

External links

• • • Tibbetts Point information from the National Park Services Maritime Heritage Program
• Tibbetts Point information from the Lighthouse Getaway
• Lighthouses of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
• Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
• Lighthouse Friends site
  • National Park Service Historic Lighthouses
• USCG list of Fresnel lenses still in operation December 2008

Notes and References

1. http://www.uscg.mil/history/docs/CG_Classical_Lens_in_Operation.pdf United States Coast Guard, Fresnel Lenses Still in Operation.
2. Web site: Smithsonian lighthouse postcards . 2009-01-10 . 2010-03-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100311051806/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/lighthouses/object.cfm?id=20 . dead .