Fire Island Light Station - Robert Moses State Park, Bay Shore, New York
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N 40° 37.945 W 073° 13.125
18T E 650638 N 4499478
The Fire Island Light Station is a visible landmark on the Great South Bay. The Fire Island Light Station was placed on the NRHP on September 11, 1981.
Waymark Code: WM19WJZ
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/26/2024
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The current lighthouse is a 168-foot (51 m) stone tower that began operation in 1858 to replace the 74-foot (23 m) tower originally built in 1826. The United States Coast Guard decommissioned the light in 1974. In 1982 the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society (FILPS) was formed to preserve the lighthouse. FILPS raised over $1.2 million to restore the tower and light. On May 25, 1986 the United States Coast Guard returned the Fire Island Lighthouse to an active aid to navigation. On February 22, 2006, the light became a private aid to navigation. It continues to be on the nautical charts, but is operated and maintained by the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society and not the USCG. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and a boundary increase for the national historic district occurred in 2010.
It is listed as Fire Island Light, number 695, in the USCG light lists.
When the lighthouse was built it was on the edge of Fire Island Inlet and marked the western end of Fire Island. However Fire Island has extended itself through accumulating sand so that the lighthouse is now nearly five miles from the western end of the island at Democrat Point.
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