Saugerties Light

Saugerties Lighthouse

Location	Hudson River at Esopus Creek, Saugerties, New York
Coordinates	42°4′19.53″N 73°55′46.72″W / 42.0720917°N 73.9296444°W / 42.0720917; -73.9296444Coordinates: 42°4′19.53″N 73°55′46.72″W / 42.0720917°N 73.9296444°W / 42.0720917; -73.9296444
Year first constructed	1869
Year first lit	1869
Automated	1954
Deactivated	1954-1990
Foundation	Granite Block Crib
Construction	Brick
Tower shape	Square
Markings / pattern	Natural w/ Black Lantern
Height	46 feet (14 m)
Focal height	42 feet (13 m)
Original lens	Sixth Order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	Occulting White 4 seconds (Oc W 4s)
Admiralty number	J1140.12
ARLHS number	USA-739 [1]
USCG number	1-38375 [2]
Saugerties Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Italianate
MPS	Hudson River Lighthouses TR
NRHP Reference #	79001642
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1979[3]

Saugerties Light, known also as the Saugerties Lighthouse, is a lighthouse on the Hudson River north of Saugerties, New York.

History

When it was built in 1869, it replaced the earlier 1838 lighthouse. Its Coast Guard service was ended in 1954.^[4] It is currently managed by the non-profit Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy which purchased the lighthouse in 1986 and has restored it. The conservancy manages the nature trail leading to the lighthouse, offers two bed and breakfast rooms and public tours. A small museum displays artifacts of the original lighthouse and the restoration efforts, as well as the history of the Saugerties waterfront.

The lighthouse keeper of 1835 was Abraham Persons. He was paid $350 for the year.^[5]

The US Coast Guard has identified Saugerties Light as one of its Historic Light Stations in New York.^[6][7]

Saugerties Light is shown on the NOAA Chart 12347.^[8]

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 Saugerties Light^[9] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Saugerties Light is listed on the National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program list of lighthouses to visit,^[10] and as one of New York's Historic Light Stations.^[11]

Image gallery

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  US Coast Guard photo

Notes

References

• DeWire, Elinor, "Saugerties Lighthouse." Mariners Weather Log (Spring 1994).

External links

• Official Site
• Hudson Lights
• Lighthouse Depot
• Lighthouse Friends
• Lighthouses of the Hudson
• Lighthouses R Us
• US Lighthouse Society
• Lighthouse Characteristics for Long Island Sound and lower Hudson River

Lighthouses of the Hudson River
Coxsackie Light Danskammer Point Light Esopus Meadows Light Four Mile Point Light Hudson-Athens Light Little Red Lighthouse (Jeffrey's Hook) New Baltimore Light Rockland Lake Light Rondout Creek (Kingston) Light Saugerties Light Stony Point Light Stuyvesant Light Tarrytown Light (Sleepy Hollow) Van Wies Point Light Watervliet Light West Point Light

Lighthouses of New York
Ambrose Tower Aunt Phebe Rock Barber's Point Barcelona Blackwell Island Bluff Point Braddock Point Buffalo Light Buffalo Harbor North and South entrance Lights Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light Buffalo North breakwater East end Light Buffalo North Breakwater South End Light Cape Vincent Carleton Island Cedar Island Charlotte–Genesee Cold Spring Harbor Coney Island Coxsackie Crossover Island Crown Point Cumberland Head Dunkirk East Charity Shoal Eatons Neck Elm Tree Beacon Esopus Meadows Execution Rocks Fair Haven Fire Island Fort Niagara Fort Lafayette Fort Tompkins Fort Wadsworth Frenchman Island Galloo Island Gardiners Point Horse Island Horton Point Hudson-Athens Huntington Harbor Kings Point Latimer Reef Little Gull Island Little Red Montauk Point Moriches New Dorp North Brother Island North Dumpling Oak Orchard Old Field Point Old Orchard Shoal Ogdensburg Harbor Orient Long Beach Bar Orient Point Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Plattsburgh Beacon Plum Island Point Aux Roches Prince's Bay Race Rock Rock Island Romer Shoal Rondout Sands Point Saugerties Selkirk Shinnecock Sodus Outer Sodus Point South Brother Island Channel Range South Buffalo North Side Split Rock Point Staten Island Statue of Liberty Stepping Stones Stony Point (Henderson) Stony Point (Hudson) Strawberry Island Upper Cut Range Stuyvesant Sunken Meadows Sunken Rock Tarrytown Thirty Mile Point Three Sisters Island Throgs Neck Tibbetts Point Turkey Point Watervliet West Point West Bank Whitehall Narrows Whitestone Point

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