Year first lit 1870 Foundation Limestone Tower shape Square Automated 1957 Year first constructed 1831 | Deactivated 1957 Construction Brick Opened 1870 Material Brick | |
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Location Horse Island in Sackets Harbor Similar Stony Point (Henderson) Light, Point Aux Roches Light, Sodus Outer Light, South Buffalo North Sid, East Charity Shoal Light | ||
Horse Island Light, also known as Sackets Harbor Light, is located on Horse Island in Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County in New York on Lake Ontario.
History
Horse Island Light is listed on the National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program as Lighthouse to visit and as one of New York's Historic Light Stations.
A modern steel skeletal tower replaced the lighthouse as an Aid to Navigation in 1957, and the lighthouse and property were sold. It is now in private hands and not open to the public. The keepers quarters were built in 1870, and consisted of a 1 1⁄2 story Queen Anne/Italianate brick house. There was also a barn and oil house on the property.
During the War of 1812, the British used Horse Island as a staging area before the Battle of Sackett's Harbor.
Lighthouse keeper at one time: Schuyler Shibley Simmons