Cumberland Head Light

Cumberland Head Light

Cumberland Head Lighthouse
Location	Cumberland Bay on Lake Champlain in New York
Coordinates	44°41′29″N 73°23′7″W / 44.69139°N 73.38528°W / 44.69139; -73.38528Coordinates: 44°41′29″N 73°23′7″W / 44.69139°N 73.38528°W / 44.69139; -73.38528
Year first constructed	1838
Year first lit	1868
Deactivated	1934-2003
Foundation	Concrete and Limestone
Construction	Limestone
Tower shape	Conical
Original lens	Fourth Order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	Flashing White 4 seconds
ARLHS number	USA-211 [1]
USCG number	1-39380 [2]

Cumberland Head Light is a lighthouse on Lake Champlain's Cumberland Bay in New York state.

The lighthouse was established in 1838 and the tower was first lit in 1868. The lighthouse was deactivated in 1934. The foundation of the lighthouse is concrete and limestone and the lighthouse itself is made out of limestone. The shape of the tower is conical. The original lens was a fourth order Fresnel lens installed in 1856.

References

External links

• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 

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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