Cumberland Head Light

Cumberland Head Light

Location	Cumberland Bay on Lake Champlain in New York
Coordinates	44°41′29″N 73°23′7″W
Tower
Constructed	1838
Foundation	Concrete and Limestone
Construction	Limestone
Height	15 m (49 ft)
Shape	Conical
Light
First lit	1868
Deactivated	1934-2003
Focal height	23 m (75 ft)
Lens	Fourth Order Fresnel lens
Range	7 nmi (13 km; 8.1 mi)
Characteristic	Flashing White 4 seconds

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

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.

External links

• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
• Cumberland Head Light on the World List of Lights

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.
• Price, Scott T. "U. S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
• 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