Princes Bay Light
The Princes Bay Light is a lighthouse at the highest point on the south shore of Staten Iceland on the Lower New York Bay New York City. It is located in the district of Pleasant Plains on a 26 m high cliff above the Raritan Bay. Attached is a brick of brown stone cottage which served as a lighthouse keeper's dwelling. The cliff with the lighthouse is part of the southern terminal moraine of the Wisconsin glaciation, which lasted until 10,000 years ago. These cliffs are among the highest cliffs on the Atlantic Ocean in the state of New York.
The current lighthouse was built in 1864 for the sum of $ 30,000, which had released for this purpose, the Congress of the United States. The attachment to the dwelling of the lighthouse Windwärts was added four years later.
The Princes Bay Lighthouse was placed in August 1922 out of service after the installation of lights in the Raritan Bay acetyline had made the facility redundant. The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto, a Roman Catholic orphanage, which had been founded by Father John Christopher Drumgoole, bought the cottage and another outbuilding in 1926.
1953 a rear directional fire on Mt Loretto, southeast of the lighthouse was put into operation. The Federal government of the United States paid therefore an annual rent of 32 U.S. dollars to the mission.
The lighthouse, the cliffs and an area of 145 acres of land and an additional 49 acre water surfaces bought 1999, the State and the Trust for Public Land of the Archdiocese of New York. The lighthouse is now part of Mount Loretto Unique Area and is a New York State Park, which is maintained by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. In the former home of the lighthouse keeper's now live rangers.
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- Built in the 1860s
- Lighthouse in the United States
- Lighthouse in North America
- Building in Staten Iceland