For a little while, I've been seeking a lighthouse on a river. Not situated at the mouth of a river where it meets the ocean, and not on a river that doesn't look much like one (much like our Maryland rivers that really resemble small embayments when the join with the Chesapeake Bay). No, I wanted a lighthouse that's on a real river that looks like a river, and would be geographically defined as a river where the lighthouse is located.
Well, I found my first lighthouse on a river. For a while it was decommissioned, but was recommissioned after restoration and it is a working lighthouse. This is the Saugerties Light on the Hudson River, and as you might surmise, it's very close to the community of Saugerties. It's situated where Esopus Creek enters the Hudson River. (Map here.)
It's open to the public and it's ALSO a bed & breakfast. Here are some Web sites:
Saugerties Lighthouse (official site)
Saugerties Lighthouse, New York (Lighthouse Friends)
Information excerpts from the Lighthouse Directory:
1869 (station established 1836). Reactivated (inactive 1954-1990); focal plane 42 ft (13 m); white light occulting every 4 s. 46 ft (14 m) square cylindrical brick tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a 2-story brick keeper's house. The building is unpainted red brick with white trim, lantern and gallery painted black. ... The lighthouse deteriorated after being deactivated and was on the point of being lost when the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy purchased it (for $1) in 1986. In four years the Conservancy restored the building and brought it back to life. In 2018 the Village of Saugerties used federal grants to restore and rebuild the seawall and bulkhead protecting the lighthouse.
OK, so that's the basic information, now for the pictures (and a short video). The last picture is a visually interesting panorama.
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