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Thirty Mile Point Light

Location	Lake Ontario
Coordinates	43°22′30″N 78°29′11″W / 43.37500°N 78.48639°W / 43.37500; -78.48639
Tower
Constructed	1876
Foundation	Limestone Block
Construction	Limestone
Automated	1959
Height	61 feet (19 m)
Shape	Square
Markings	Natural w/ White, Black and Red Lantern
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Light
First lit	1998
Deactivated	1959-1998
Focal height	71 feet (22 m)
Lens	Third Order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	Flashing White 10s (Fl W 10s)
Thirty Mile Point Light
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1875 (1875)
MPS	U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
NRHP reference No.	84003922
Added to NRHP	July 19, 1984

Thirty Mile Point Light is a lighthouse on the south shore of Lake Ontario in Niagara County, New York. It is part of Golden Hill State Park, a New York state park. The lighthouse is open to the public. It gets its name because it is the point 30 miles east of the Niagara River. The lighthouse was built in 1875 of hand-carved stone. The old tower is being restored.

The lighthouse is listed in the Historic American Buildings Survey as NY-6154. There are three photos available in the survey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Thirty Mile Point Light was one of five lighthouses chosen for the "Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" postage stamp series designed by Howard Koslow in 1995. There was one lighthouse chosen on each of the Great Lakes. The four other lighthouses were Split Rock Light on Lake Superior, St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron, and Marblehead Light on Lake Erie.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. ARLHS
3. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
4. "Golden Hill State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
5. Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
6. Stamp images, Great Lakes Lighthouses.
7. Postage stamp artwork, Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse Stamp.
8. "Split Rock Lighthouse gifts by Harmony Designs (Bookmarks, Paperweights, Magnets and more.)". 2006-05-07. Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
9. Postage stamp artwork, Spectacle Reef Lighthouse Stamp.
10. Postage stamp artwork, Marblehead Lighthouse Stamp.

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.
• Price, Scott T. "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

• Friends of Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse
• Lighthouse Friends site
• US-Lighthouses.com
• "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
• NPS Thirty Mile Point
• Lighthouses of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
• Aerial Photo

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