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Cumberland Head Light

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Year first lit
  
1868

Foundation
  
Concrete and Limestone

Tower shape
  
Conical

Material
  
Limestone

Deactivated
  
1934-2003

Construction
  
Limestone

Opened
  
1838

Year first constructed
  
1838

Cumberland Head Light httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Cumberland Bay on Lake Champlain in New York

Similar
  
Point Aux Roches Light, Stony Point (Henderson) Light, South Buffalo North Sid, Buffalo North Breakwat, Coxsackie Light

Cumberland Head Light is a lighthouse on Lake Champlain's Cumberland Bay in New York state.

Map of Cumberland Head, NY 12901, USA

The lighthouse was established in 1838 and the tower was first lit in 1868. The lighthouse was deactivated in 1934. The foundation of the lighthouse is concrete and limestone and the lighthouse itself is made out of limestone. The shape of the tower is conical. The original lens was a fourth order Fresnel lens installed in 1856.

References

Cumberland Head Light Wikipedia