Throgs Neck Light: Difference between revisions
imported>Epicgenius m Adding short description: "Lighthouse in the Bronx, New York", overriding automatically generated description |
imported>Sam Sailor Remove stub template(s) with De-Stub.js (version 1.2) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|Lighthouse in the Bronx, New York}} | {{Short description|Lighthouse in the Bronx, New York}} | ||
{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} | |||
{{Infobox lighthouse | {{Infobox lighthouse | ||
| image_name= Throgsneck1890.JPG | | image_name= Throgsneck1890.JPG | ||
| Line 55: | Line 56: | ||
[[Category:Throggs Neck, Bronx]] | [[Category:Throggs Neck, Bronx]] | ||
[[Category:Government buildings in the Bronx]] | [[Category:Government buildings in the Bronx]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:09, 22 October 2025
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "lighthouse tracking".Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Throgs Neck Light in Throggs Neck, the Bronx, New York, was a wooden lighthouse that was replaced by an iron skeletal tower that is still there. The lighthouse protects ships in the Long Island Sound from running up against the rocks.[1]
The lighthouse is located on the northeasterly side of Fort Schuyler, southeasterly end of Throgs Neck and on the northerly side of the entrance from Long Island Sound into the East River.
- Tower Shape / Markings / Pattern: White, square, pyramidal,
- skeleton iron tower; lantern, black (1890); Red brick cylindrical tower (1906)
- Height: Script error: No such module "convert". (1890); Script error: No such module "convert". (1906)
Chronology
- Original wooden lighthouse established in 1827. It was torn down during the construction of the fort.
- A new wooden tower replaced the original lighthouse in 1835. It remained in service until 1890.
- Replaced by a skeletal tower in 1890.
- An oil house was built in 1896.
- Skeletal tower replaced in 1906 with a 35-foot red brick tower. Its location was Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of the old light.
- Light discontinued in 1934 and replaced by a small skeleton tower surmounted with a small signal lamp.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Throgs Neck Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com
- Template:ARLHS link
- Throgs Neck Lighthouse - at the National Lighthouse Museum
- Template:Cite uscghist
Script error: No such module "Navbox".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages using infobox lighthouse with deprecated parameters
- All articles using infobox lighthouse
- Lighthouses completed in 1827
- Lighthouses completed in 1835
- Lighthouses completed in 1890
- Lighthouses completed in 1906
- Lighthouses in New York City
- 1827 establishments in New York (state)
- Transportation buildings and structures in the Bronx
- Throggs Neck, Bronx
- Government buildings in the Bronx