Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse
by John Telfer
Title
Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse
Artist
John Telfer
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Photograph - Photograph
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While visiting the town of Sleepy Hollow recently I wanted to go down to the Hudson River, and see about getting a good photo of the famous Sleepy House Lighthouse, also known as the Sleepy House Light, Tarrytown Lighthouse or Tarrytown Light. Last time I was up in this area it was to dark to go walking through the woods to get to the Lighthouse, so since I was getting ready to leave the town of Sleepy Hollow I figured I would go now. Once I got into the Sleepy Hollow Park on the water I walked down as far as I could to get the best possible photo. I was hoping to capture just the lighthouse, which I have in another photo, but I enjoyed this one with the famous Tarrytown Bridge in the background and on such a clear day you could see the mountains behind the Tarrytown Bridge. The tide was low that day, so the rocks were showing leading up to the Lighthouse and the Lighthouse was nice and clear that day, I was able to capture the red white and black colors perfectly. If you would like to read more about the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse please feel free to read about it in the information listed below;
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It a conical steel structure erected in the 1880s. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The need for a lighthouse to warn ships away from the shoals near the common route off Tarrytown and Ossining had been obvious by the mid-19th century. But high land values at two favored locations led the federal government to instead build it a 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) offshore. It was the only family station on the lower Hudson, the only conical steel lighthouse on the Hudson to have living quarters within it rather than attached, and the only lighthouse in Westchester County. It remained in use until the mid-20th century; the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge on the shoals where it stood, and the development of the General Motors Tarrytown Truck Assembly plant on land reclaimed from the river to its east, made the light obsolete. Today it is part of a county park, and tours are available.
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