Ogdensburg Harbor Light is a privately owned
lighthouse on the
St. Lawrence River
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, listed on the
National Park Service
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's
Maritime Heritage Program as Lighthouse to visit.
/ref> In 2016 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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History
An addition was made to the tower in 1900.
Cultural
The Archives Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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has a collection (#1055) of souvenir postcard
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s of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online. These include postcards of Ogdensburg Harbor Light [Smithsonian lighthouse postcards](_blank)
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Ogdensburg light 1911.jpg, 1911 postcard in the Smithsonian's collection
See also
*List of lighthouses in the United States
This is a list of lighthouses in the United States. The United States has had approximately a thousand lights as well as light towers, range lights, and pier head lights. Michigan has the most lights of any state with over 150 past and present l ...
* National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Lawrence County, New York
References
Further reading
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), pp. 145–146
External links
Lighthouse Friends site
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Lighthouses completed in 1834
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Transportation buildings and structures in St. Lawrence County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in St. Lawrence County, New York
1834 establishments in New York (state)
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