Fourth Order Light-House on South West Ledge, Long Island Sound – Historic Print
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This rare historic image captures Fourth Order Light-House on South West Ledge, Long Island Sound in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Fourth Order Light-House on South West Ledge, Long Island Sound
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Few lighthouses in Long Island Sound stood on so exposed a site as the one on South West Ledge, a rock shelf offshore from the approaches to New London, Connecticut. Its fourth-order lens, a mid-sized optic used for harbor and coastal lights, was meant to warn ships away from hazards that were hard to see at night or in fog. Built in the 1870s, the tower was a working station where keepers lived on the ledge, tending the lamp and keeping watch over the water through long stretches of isolation.
| Original scan | 1,900 × 2,837 px · prints to 6 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09339_Fourthorderlighthouseonsouthwe |
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