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©Robbins Reef is situated near the entrance to Kill van Kull, a three-mile-long waterway linking Upper New York Bay to Newark Bay and one of the busiest ports in the eastern United States.
The existing structure was built in 1883, replacing an octagonal stone tower built in 1839. It contained a circular staircase that provided access to the various levels of the tower and a ladder leading to the lantern room from which a fixed white light shone, produced by fifteen lamps set in sixteen-inch reflectors. Isaac Johnson, the light’s first keeper, first lit the lamps in 1839.
It’s sometimes known as Kate’s Light for lightkeeper Kate Walker who cared for the station alone for 30 years following the death of her husband Captain John Walker in 1886.“Every morning when the sun comes up,” Kate once said, “I stand at the porthole and look towards his grave. Sometimes the hills are brown, sometimes they are green, sometimes they are white with snow. But always they bring a message from him, something I heard him say more often than anything else. Just three words: ‘Mind the light.’”
The existing structure was built in 1883, replacing an octagonal stone tower built in 1839. It contained a circular staircase that provided access to the various levels of the tower and a ladder leading to the lantern room from which a fixed white light shone, produced by fifteen lamps set in sixteen-inch reflectors. Isaac Johnson, the light’s first keeper, first lit the lamps in 1839.
It’s sometimes known as Kate’s Light for lightkeeper Kate Walker who cared for the station alone for 30 years following the death of her husband Captain John Walker in 1886.“Every morning when the sun comes up,” Kate once said, “I stand at the porthole and look towards his grave. Sometimes the hills are brown, sometimes they are green, sometimes they are white with snow. But always they bring a message from him, something I heard him say more often than anything else. Just three words: ‘Mind the light.’”
©This lighthouse was constructed in 1864 on the southern shores of Staten Island for $30,000. The attached lightkeeper’s cottage was completed in 1868. Perched atop an 85-foot hill overlooking Raritan Bay, it was deactivated in 1922 after the placement of lighted buoys in the bay made it redundant.
The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mt. Loretto purchased the lighthouse, the cottage and an additional outbuilding in 1926. The Mission already held a residence and school for seventeen-hundred orphans in the vicinity of the lighthouse. At some point, they placed a statue of the Virgin Mary where the lantern room once was.
New York State and the Trust for Public Land co-purchased the lighthouse and 145 acres of surrounding land as well as 45 underwater acres from the Archdiocese of New York in 1999. Today, the property is known as Mount Loretto Unique Area and is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Though the lighthouse grounds are not open to the public, hiking trails in the surrounding area provide great views.
The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mt. Loretto purchased the lighthouse, the cottage and an additional outbuilding in 1926. The Mission already held a residence and school for seventeen-hundred orphans in the vicinity of the lighthouse. At some point, they placed a statue of the Virgin Mary where the lantern room once was.
New York State and the Trust for Public Land co-purchased the lighthouse and 145 acres of surrounding land as well as 45 underwater acres from the Archdiocese of New York in 1999. Today, the property is known as Mount Loretto Unique Area and is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Though the lighthouse grounds are not open to the public, hiking trails in the surrounding area provide great views.
Давным давно, на верху кургана была деревянная крепость и от неё к низу горы вела дорога выложенная деревянными досками и с деревянными борта. И зимой с выпавшим снегом это дорога превращалась в отличную горку.
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