Five Mile Point Lighthouse
by Joan Carroll
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Title
Five Mile Point Lighthouse
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
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It was sunny but bitterly cold on the day I visited Five Mile Point Lighthouse. You expect lighthouses to be a lonely outpost or on a rocky coast. This one is in Lighthouse Point Park, 5 miles from downtown New Haven CT! It was strung with lights perhaps for the holidays, or maybe it's always that way to look festive. The park was being decorated for a holiday light show. It seemed a sad fate for a once proud lighthouse. Completed in 1847, the new tower, painted white, stands 65 feet tall. The exterior is made of East Haven sandstone, the interior lined with New Haven brick, and the 74 steps leading to the lantern room are carved from solid granite. The new light, at a focal plane of 97 feet above sea, could be seen 10 nautical miles on a clear day, shining from a system of twelve lamps with 21-inch reflectors. The lamp system was upgraded to a fourth-order Fresnel lens in 1855. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
FEATURED PHOTO, All Places on the Atlantic Coast of the USA group, 1/10/15
FEATURED PHOTO, Lighthouses group, 10/27/14
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December 7th, 2013
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Thomas Marchessault
The gray against the blue is very nice. I can see why it is an image that excites you.
Joan Carroll
thank you Allen for the feature in the All Places on the Atlantic Coast of the USA group, 1/10/15
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