Tibbetts Point Light

The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is located in Cape Vincent (town), New York. The land upon which the lighthouse stands is a part of a 600-acre (240 ha) grant of land to Captain John Tibbetts of Troy, New York. The lighthouse is a circular tower that stands 69 feet (21 m) above the water

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
Location	Tibbetts Point on Lake Ontario at the St Lawrence River
Coordinates	44°6′00″N 76°22′12″W
Year first lit	1854
Automated	1981
Foundation	Natural/Emplaced
Construction	Brick/Stucco
Tower shape	Conical frustum
Markings / pattern	White w/ Black Lantern
Tower height	58 feet (18 m)
Focal height	69 feet (21 m)
Original lens	Fourth Order Fresnel lens
Current lens	original lens
Range	16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi)
Characteristic	Occulting White (Oc W 10s)
Admiralty number	H2836
ARLHS number	USA-848 [1]
USCG number	7-1735 [2]
Heritage	place listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Tibbetts Point Light
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Cape Vincent, New York
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1854 (1854)
MPS	U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
NRHP reference No.	84002412[3]
Added to NRHP	July 19, 1984

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse

The current lighthouse was constructed in 1854.

The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.

Its Fresnel lens is still used. Only 70 such lenses are still operational in the United States, 16 being on the Great Lakes of which two are in New York.[4]

Tibbetts Point Light 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 Tibbetts Point Light [5] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Notes

1. ARLHS World List of Lights
2. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
4. United States Coast Guard, Fresnel Lenses Still in Operation. Archived 2009-03-25 at Archive-It
5. Smithsonian lighthouse postcards

References

DeWire, Elinor, "Tibbets Point Lighthouse." Mariners Weather Log (Fall 1991), pp. 30–31.

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) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
• Scott T. Price. "U. S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
• 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) ISBN 1-55046-399-3

External links

Media related to Tibbetts Point Light at Wikimedia Commons

• Tibbetts Point information from the National Park Services Maritime Heritage Program
• Tibbetts Point information from the Lighthouse Getaway
• Lighthouses of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
• Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
• Lighthouse Friends site
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
• National Park Service Historic Lighthouses
• USCG list of Fresnel lenses still in operation December 2008