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Cedar Point County Park is a park in East Hampton
East Hampton (town), New York

The Town of East Hampton is a Administrative divisions of New York#town located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, New York at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. It has commanding views of Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay

Gardiners Bay is a small arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 10 mi long and 8 mi wide in the U.S. state of New York between the two flukelike peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island....
 and is famed for its decommissioned lighthouse
Cedar Island Light

Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton , New York, New York. It has commanding views of Gardiners Bay....
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History
Settled in 1651, Cedar Point was once a busy port for shipping farm goods, fish, and timber from Sag Harbor. The historic Cedar Point Lighthouse stood on an island 200 yards from shore when it was built in 1839. Its beacon served to guide whaling ships in and out of Sag Harbor during its hey-day as a major port.






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Cedar Point County Park is a park in East Hampton
East Hampton (town), New York

The Town of East Hampton is a Administrative divisions of New York#town located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, New York at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. It has commanding views of Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay

Gardiners Bay is a small arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 10 mi long and 8 mi wide in the U.S. state of New York between the two flukelike peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island....
 and is famed for its decommissioned lighthouse
Cedar Island Light

Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton , New York, New York. It has commanding views of Gardiners Bay....
.

History


Settled in 1651, Cedar Point was once a busy port for shipping farm goods, fish, and timber from Sag Harbor. The historic Cedar Point Lighthouse stood on an island 200 yards from shore when it was built in 1839. Its beacon served to guide whaling ships in and out of Sag Harbor during its hey-day as a major port. The New England Hurricane of 1938
New England Hurricane of 1938

The New England Hurricane of 1938 was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast of Africa in September of the 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on Long Island on Sep...
 transformed the shoreline, shifting sands to create a narrow, walkable strip that now connects the lighthouse with the mainland.

The 40 foot granite lighthouse was decommissioned in 1934 and replaced by an automatic light on a steel skeleton at breakwater. The lighthouse, built in the Italianate style
Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and Neoclassicism, were synthesized with picturesque aesthetics....
, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
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