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Cedar Island
State: NY
Year established: 1839
Latitude: 41 deg 2
min 27 sec N
Longitude: 72 deg 15
min 40 sec W
Rebuilds:
 1868: existing square granite tower on two-story granite dwelling
Status:
deactivated in 1934; replaced by square green day-board "3CI" on skeleton tower
Notes:
Originally on an island 200 yards from shore, the "Great" hurricane of 1938 shifted bottom sands to create a narrow strip connecting the island to the shore, now a park owned by Suffolk County
More information:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/cedarisl.htm
http://www.longislandlighthouses.com/cedarisland/index.htm
http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.asp?fname=shli04se.jpg&state=NY
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 230-233
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