Sandy Hook Lighthouse II
by Marianne Campolongo
Title
Sandy Hook Lighthouse II
Artist
Marianne Campolongo
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Photograph
Description
The Sandy Hook Light House and Keeper's House, Gateway National Recreation Area, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, June 2013. It is the oldest original tower still standing and in use in the United States, lit for the first time in 1764. Funded by a group of New York merchants to provide safer passage into New York Harbor, it was originally called the New York Lighthouse. One of 12 lighthouses built by the original colonies, it was ceded to the United States in 1789.
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