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Great Captain Island, CT" page at LighthouseFriends.com Web site, accessed August 21, 2006
Old Field Point Light is a lighthouse within the village of
lamps and was magnified by a large glass reflector.
In 1868, a new lighthouse was built, with Old Field, New York
Old Field is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village located in the Brookhaven, New York, Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York (state), New York, United States. The population w ...
between the entrances to Port Jefferson Harbor and Stony Brook Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island.kerosene
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lamps. In 1933, an automatic revolving light was installed. When the lighthouse was in use, the caretaker used the Old Field village hall as a home.
The U.S. government gave it back to Old Field in 1935, with the proviso that the government can take it back in case of a national emergency. It was taken back during World War II
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by the U.S. Coast Guard
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, but after the war they gave it back to the Old Field community. The Old Field light shines on New York's Long Island Sound.
The structure is of the same design as lighthouses at Sheffield Island in Norwalk, Connecticut; Morgan Point in Noank, Connecticut
Noank ( ) is a village in the town of Groton, Connecticut. This dense community of historic homes and local businesses sits on a small, steep peninsula at the mouth of the Mystic River with a long tradition of fishing, lobstering and boat-buildin ...
; Great Captain Island
Great Captain Island, also known more familiarly as "Great Captain's Island," is an island off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut. The island is the largest of a three-island group that also includes Little Captain and Wee Captain. The island ...
in Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich (, ) is a town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. At the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 63,518. The largest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast, Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and other ...
, Plum Island on Plum Island in New York; and Block Island North on Block Island in Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...
.Great Captain Island, CT" page at LighthouseFriends.com Web site, accessed August 21, 2006
Cultural
The Archives Center at theSmithsonian 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 Old Field Point Light with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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.
References
{{authority control Lighthouses completed in 1868 Lighthouses in Suffolk County, New York Long Island Sound 1868 establishments in New York (state)