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   LONG ISLAND CHAPTER  
  UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE SOCIETY
“To Preserve and Promote the Lighthouse Heritage of Long Island”
 
 

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Shinnecock Bay Lighthouse

Several local lighthouses have been lost, are endangered, or are no longer available to the public. The beautiful, grand, and historically important Shinnecock Lighthouse was demolished in 1948, but could have been saved by public support.

 


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Painting by lighthouse artist
Steven J. Ervin

Click this Link to Purchase a 4" x 6" Print of the Shinnecock Lighthouse Painting Shown Here

Copyright © 2001 Steven J. Ervin. All rights reserved. Image may not be used or reproduced without expressed written permission.


Click this Link to Purchase a 4" x 6" Print of the Shinnecock Lighthouse Photograph Shown Here  

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Special thanks to Alan Chester from Baldwin for his permission to display this photo of Shinnecock Lighthouse, taken two months before it was knocked down by the Coast Guard. Alan inherited the photograph from his father-in-law who lived across the Shinnecock Canal and could view the lighthouse from his home. Copyright © October, 1948 Bill Baldwin. All rights reserved. Image may not be used or reproduced without expressed written permission.

 

Special thanks to Jean Sprague Ruland for permission to use this photograph. It is one of several snapshots her father Clayton Thomas Sprague G.M.3c took while stationed at the lighthouse during World War I from 1918-1919 with the US Navy.