Oak Orchard Light

Oak Orchard Light was a lighthouse that operated on the shores of Lake Ontario, in New York, United States, at Point Breeze from 1871 to 1916. In 2010 a local community group built a historically accurate replica of the lighthouse near the original site on the east side of Oak Orchard Creek. Originally it had been built at the end of a long wooden pier on the west side.[2]

Oak Orchard Light
LocationOn Lake Ontario, at Point Breeze in New York
Coordinates43°22′16″N 78°11′35″W
Year first constructed1871
Year first lit1871
Deactivated1916
Tower height10.5 metre 
Focal height11 metre 
CharacteristicF W 
ARLHS numberUSA-559[1]

References
  1. "Oak Orchard Light ARLHS USA-559". ARLHS World List of Lights. The Weidner Publishing Group. 2003. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  2. "The Oak Orchard Lighthouse is Built!". Oak Orchard Lighthouse. Retrieved 26 April 2011.

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


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