Oswego Harbor West Pierced Lighthouse - Oswego, NY
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ripraff
N 43° 28.399 W 076° 31.001
18T E 377330 N 4814495
This lighthouse can be seen from Fort Ontario in Oswego. The lighthouse can be viewed from shore at 43.467157, -76.508297
Waymark Code: WMRNGC
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2016
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"Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation located off the coast of Oswego, New York. It was built in 1934 to replace an earlier light constructed in 1880. It stands at the end of a 2,000-foot-long (610 m) breakwater at mouth of Oswego River, extending .5 miles (.8 km) out onto Lake Ontario. It is accessible by boat or from land over the abutting breakwater. It is not open to the public. It is owned by the City of Oswego and operated by the United States Coast Guard."
"The station remained manned until 1968 when it was automated...It is the only lighthouse of four in Oswego still standing. The light is currently solar powered."
"The tower is situated on a massive concrete/masonry caisson that extends 17 feet (5.18 meters) above the mean surface of the lake. The caisson has three feet (0.91 meter) thick walls. The superstructure has bolted steel plate and iron walls, roof, doors, window shutters. It has a one-story hipped roof living quarters with a three-story tower at the north east corner of the caisson."