Rondout Light
| Rondout Creek Leading Light | ||
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| Place: | Kingston , New York , USA | |
| Location: | Mouth of Rondout Creek into the Hudson River | |
| Geographical location: | 41 ° 55 '15 " N , 73 ° 57' 45" W | |
| Fire carrier height : | 15 m | |
| Fire height : | 16 m | |
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| Identifier : | Fl.W.6s | |
| Optics: | 250 mm Fresnel lens | |
| Construction time: | 1838 / 1913-1915 | |
| Operating time: | since 1915 (current structure) | |
| International ordinal number: | J1139 (Admiralty) USA-702 ( ARLHS ) 1-38190 ( USCG ) |
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Rondout Light is a lighthouse on the west bank of the Hudson River , at the mouth of Rondout Creek , near Kingston , New York .
designation
The official name on the United States Coast Guard Light List is Rondout Creek Leading Light . The structure was entered in the National Register of Historic Places under the name Kingston / Rondout 2 Lighthouse . This naming goes back to the order in the series of beacons and beacons in Rondout Creek. Number 2 is the first signal on the right side of the river towards the source. The United States Coast Guard website , devoted to the history of navigation in the United States, calls the facility Rondout Creek (Kingston) Light .
history
When the lighthouse was put into operation in 1915, it took the place of a process structure from 1867. The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act ensured that the United States Coast Guard had to decommission some of its facilities and donate them to non-profit organizations for monument preservation or local authorities had to transfer. In a pilot project in autumn 2001, following the tendering and examination of the offers, nine lighthouses were privatized in this way. The Rondout Light was one of these nine systems. The City of Kingston became the new owner of the Rondout Light in 2002 . It is currently used by the non-profit Hudson River Maritime Museum .
The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1979 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF) (= Light List ), United States Coast Guard , 2009, p. 318.
- ^ Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of the United States: Downstate New York ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . December 24, 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
- ^ NHLPA 2001 Transfer Pilot Program
- ↑ Hudson Lights
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.
- ^ Elise Marie Barry: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Kingston / Rondout 2 Lighthouse . New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . February 1979. Accessed on May 29, 2012. See also: accompanying images (Java required in each case), cf. Hudson River Lighthouses TR (PDF; 558 kB)