Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light, also known as the South Buffalo Southside Light or Buffalo South Breakwater, South Entrance Light Station, is a
lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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at Stony Point at the entrance to Buffalo Harbor,
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from South ...
. It was established in 1903 and deactivated in 1993. It was replaced by a nearby modern post light. The lighthouse property consists of a three-story cast iron decommissioned light tower topped with a lantern; one-story concrete fog signal building and an L-shaped concrete pier.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
References
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) .
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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)
External links
Notice of Availability, July 23, 2008
* ttp://wlol.arlhs.com/lighthouse/USA91.html Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society website*
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090331154428/http://lighthouse.boatnerd.com/gallery/Erie/BuffaloSouthBW.htm Lighthouses of the Great Lakes
Lighthouses completed in 1903
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Lighthouses in Erie County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York
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