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Managing Organization:
Rock I. Lighthouse Historical & Memorial Assoc.
Website: http://rockislandlighthouse.org
Email: keeper@rockislandlighthouse.org
Contact Address Information:
1328 Q St. NW #2
Washington
District of Columbia,
20009,
United States
Notes:
In 2013, a three year $1.3 million restoration by the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation, in conjunction with the Rock Island Lighthouse and Memorial Association, was completed at the lighthouse, which now has a self guided interpretive maritime museum and gift shop as well as public restrooms. Tours are offered to the lighthouse by www.ClaytonIslandTours.com Phone (315)686-4820 Tower Height: 60 Description of Tower: White, conical cast iron tower on limestone base.
This light is not operational
Other Buildings?
1882 1.5 story keeper's house, boathouse, workshop, smokehouse, generator house, carpenter's shop. Earlier Towers?
1847: Lantern on roof of keeper's house. Date Established: 1847 Date Present Tower Built: 1882
Tower Moved?
1894 Date Deactivated: 1958 Optics: 18??: Sixth order Fresnel lens. Current Use: Attraction in state park. Open To Public? Yes Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places Keepers: Chesterfield Pearsons (1848-1849); John B. Collins (1849-1853); William Johnston (1853-1861); S.E. Spaulding (1861-1865); Joseph Collins (1865-1870); Willard L. Cook (1870-1879); Foster M. Drake (1879-1886); Michael J. Diepolder (1886-1901); Emma E. Diepolder (1901); Eugene J. Butler (1901-1912); John C. Belden (1912-1940); Frank K. Ward (1939-1941); J.W. Van Ingern (Coast Guard, 1955); Dennis Carroll (Coast Guard (1955-1956); John T. Trucker (Coast Guard (1956)
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