Princes Bay Light
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| Place: | Staten Island , New York City | |
| Location: | Lower New York Bay | |
| Geographical location: | 40 ° 30 '27.7 " N , 74 ° 12' 48.3" W | |
| Height of tower base: | 26 m | |
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| Construction time: | 1864 | |
The Princes Bay Light is a lighthouse at the highest point on the south bank of Staten Island on Lower New York Bay in New York City . It is located in the Pleasant Plains district on a 26 m high cliff above Raritan Bay . A cottage made of brown stones is attached, which served as the lighthouse keeper's house. The cliff with the lighthouse is part of the southern terminal moraine from the Wisconsin glaciation , which lasted until 10,000 years ago. These cliffs are among the highest cliffs on the Atlantic Ocean in New York State .
The current lighthouse was in 1864 for the sum of 30,000 US dollars established that the United States Congress had approved for this purpose. The extension with the apartment of the lighthouse was added four years later.
Princes Bay Lighthouse was decommissioned in August 1922 after the installation of acetyline lights in Raritan Bay made the facility redundant. The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mt. Loretto, a Roman Catholic orphanage established by Rev. John Christopher Drumgoole , acquired the cottage and another outbuilding in 1926.
In 1953 a rear beacon was put into operation on Mt. Loretto, southeast of the lighthouse. The federal government of the United States paid the mission an annual rent of US $ 32.
The lighthouse, cliffs and 145 acres of land and an additional 49 acres of water were bought by the state and the Trust for Public Land from the Archdiocese of New York in 1999 . The lighthouse is now part of the Mount Loretto Unique Area and is a New York State Park maintained by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation . Park rangers now live in the former home of the lighthouse keeper.
supporting documents
- ↑ / Geology of Staten Island, College of Staten Island ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Northeast Lights: Lighthouses & Lightships, Rhode Island to Cape May, New Jersey by Robert G. Bach and Publisher: Sea Sports Publications (September 1993) ISBN 0961639946
