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Location | Olcott, New York, Lake Ontario |
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Coordinates | 43°20′20″N 78°42′54″W / 43.33889°N 78.71500°W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1873[1] |
Height | 27 feet (8.2 m) |
Shape | Square, pyramidal |
Markings | White with Black Lantern |
Light | |
Deactivated | 1932 |
Olcott Light was built on a pier in Olcott, New York at Eighteen Mile Creek, named for being eighteen miles from the Niagara River at Lake Ontario.[2] The light was no longer needed in the 1930s, and was moved to a local yacht club, where it resided until the early 1960s when it was destroyed. In the summer of 2003, a replica was built from old photographs.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Francis Ross Holland, Jr. (28 September 2012). America's Lighthouses. Courier Corporation. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-486-13927-2.
- ^ ARLHS World List of Lights
References
[edit]"Olcott Light Rebuilt," Bill Edwards, Lighthouse Digest, April, 2004.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
- Price, Scott T. "U. S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
- 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
[edit]- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- Lighthouse Friends
- US-Lighthouses.com
- Rudy and Alice's Lighthouse page
- Lighthouse Depot Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine