Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton (town), New York, East Hampton, New York (state), New York. It overlooks Gardiners Bay.
History
The granite lighthouse was decommissioned in 1934 and replaced by an automatic light on a steel skeleton at breakwater. The lighthouse, built in the Italianate architecture, Italianate style, 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 Cedar Island Light
[Smithsonian lighthouse postcards](_blank)
with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
References
External links
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Cedar Island Lighthouse- from Lighthousefriends.com
Suffolk County Park SiteU. S. Lighthouse Society’s The Keeper’s Log – Winter, 2007
Lighthouses completed in 1839
East Hampton (town), New York
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Lighthouses in Suffolk County, New York
Tourist attractions in Suffolk County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York
Italianate architecture in New York (state)
1839 establishments in New York (state)
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