Photo of the Week
FROM THE SCHS LIBRARY ARCHIVES
“How shall we know it is us without our past?”
– John Steinbeck
Lloyd Harbor Lighthouse, c. 1905
by Wendy Polhemus-Annibell, Head Librarian
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Original Lloyd Harbor Lighthouse, c. 1905. (Image from the Huntington Town Pictorial Collection of the Suffolk County Historical Society Library & Archives. Copyright (c) Suffolk County Historical Society. All rights reserved.)
The original Lloyd Harbor Lighthouse was constructed in 1857. It consisted of a two-story, wood-frame dwelling built on a brick foundation and was attached at one corner to a square brick tower. A kitchen, dining room, and sitting room were located on the first floor, and three bedrooms were available on the second floor. The original beacon was a fifth-order, Henry-Lepaute Fresnel lens showing a fixed white light at a focal plane of forty-eight feet. The first keeper listed for Lloyd Harbor Lighthouse was John S. Woods. He was replaced by Abiathar Johnson in 1875, and by Robert McGlone in 1885.
This Lloyd Harbor Lighthouse was eventually replaced by the Huntington Harbor Light, which was built in a nearby spot in Huntington Bay. In 1947, the original Lloyd Harbor Light that had stood for more than ninety years was lost in a fire.
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