Ogdensburg Harbor Light

Ogdensburg Harbor Light is a privately owned lighthouse on the St. Lawrence River, listed on the National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program as Lighthouse to visit. [3] and as one of New York's Historic Light Stations.[4] In 2016 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[5]

Ogdensburg Light
Lighthouse in 2013
LocationLighthouse Point, St.Lawrence River, Ogdensburg, New York
Coordinates44°41′52″N 75°30′12″W
Year first constructed1834
Year first lit1900
Deactivated1961-2011
ConstructionLimestone
Tower shapeSquare
Markings / patternWhite & Grey w/ Red Lantern
Tower height65 feet (20 m)
Focal height21 metre 
Original lensFourth-order Fresnel lens
Current lensUnknown
(Relit in 2011)
CharacteristicFl W 10s 
ARLHS numberUSA-562 [1]
Heritageplace listed on the National Register of Historic Places 
Ogdensburg Harbor Lighthouse
NRHP reference No.16000202[2]
Added to NRHPApril 26, 2016

History

An addition was made to the tower in 1900.

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 Ogdensburg Harbor Light [6] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

  • 1911 postcard in the Smithsonian's collection
gollark: Electric cars are expensive *partly* because they need batteries for hundred-mile journeys, even though most actually won't be this long. And cars are kind of inefficient because most of the time they're left idling.
gollark: Personally, I think that local public transport and short-range intra-city electric cars would be worth considering.
gollark: Batteries' energy density isn't that great right now, sadly.
gollark: Also, they cause pollution indirectly, much like electric cars, although less.
gollark: Not travelling with another person.

See also

References
  1. ARLHS World List of Lights
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  3. National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of Historic Light Stations
  4. National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of NY Historic Light Stations
  5. "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 4/30/16 through 5/06/15. National Park Service. 2011-05-06.
  6. Smithsonian lighthouse postcards

Further reading

Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), pp. 145–146

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