Thirty Mile Point Light
LocationLake Ontario
Coordinates43°22′30″N 78°29′11″W
Yearbuilt1876
Automated1959
Yeardeactivated1959-1998
FoundationLimestone Block
ConstructionLimestone
ShapeSquare
MarkingNatural w/ White, Black and Red Lantern
Height61 feet (19 m)
Focalheight71 feet (22 m)
LensThird Order Fresnel lens
CharacteristicFlashing White 10s (Fl W 10s)
Thirty Mile Point Light
Built1875
AddedJuly 19, 1984
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
MpsubU.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
Refnum84003922[1]

Thirty Mile Point Light is a lighthouse on the south shore of Lake Ontario in Niagara County, New York.[2][3] It is part of Golden Hill State Park, a New York state park.[4] The lighthouse is open to the public. It gets its name because it is the point 30 miles east of the Niagara River. The lighthouse was built in 1875 of hand-carved stone. The old tower is being restored.

The lighthouse is listed in the Historic American Buildings Survey as NY-6154. There are three photos available in the survey.[5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1][6]

Thirty Mile Point Light was one of five lighthouses chosen for the "Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" postage stamp series designed by Howard Koslow in 1995.[7][8] There was one lighthouse chosen on each of the Great Lakes. The four other lighthouses were Split Rock Light on Lake Superior,[9] St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron,[10] and Marblehead Light on Lake Erie.[11]

References

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  2. ^ ARLHS
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  4. ^ "Golden Hill State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  5. ^ Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
  6. ^ Carol Poh Miller (May 1979). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York MPS Thirty Mile Point Light (none). National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 14, 2025. ()
  7. ^ Stamp images, Great Lakes Lighthouses.
  8. ^ Postage stamp artwork, Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse Stamp.[dead link]
  9. ^ "Split Rock Lighthouse gifts by Harmony Designs (Bookmarks, Paperweights, Magnets and more.)". 2006-05-07. Archived 2006-05-07 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  10. ^ Postage stamp artwork, Spectacle Reef Lighthouse Stamp.[dead link]
  11. ^ Postage stamp artwork, Marblehead Lighthouse Stamp.[dead link]

Further reading

  • Oleszewski, Wes. Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
  • U.S. Coast Guard. Historically Famous Lighthouses (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1957).
  • Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia. Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3