Execution Rocks lighthouse
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| Location | West end of Long Island Sound |
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| Coordinates | 40°52′41.3″N 73°44′16.3″W / 40.878139°N 73.737861°WCoordinates: 40°52′41.3″N 73°44′16.3″W / 40.878139°N 73.737861°W |
| Year first constructed | 1849 |
| Year first lit | 1850 |
| Automated | 1979 |
| Deactivated | Active |
| Foundation | Dressed stone/timber |
| Construction | Granite with brick lining |
| Tower shape | Conical |
| Height | 60 feet (18 m) |
| Focal height | 62 feet (19 m) |
| Original lens | Fourth Order Fresnel, 1856 |
| Current lens | APRB-251 |
| Range | 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) |
| Characteristic | Flashing white 10s |
| Fog signal | none |
| Racon | "X" (– •• –) |
| Admiralty number | J0916 |
| ARLHS number | USA-277 |
| USCG number |
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Execution Rocks Light Station
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| Nearest city | New Rochelle, New York |
| Architect | Alexander Parris |
| MPS | Light Stations of the United States MPS |
| NRHP Reference # | 07000094 |
| Added to NRHP | February 23, 2007 |
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Execution Rocks Light is a lighthouse in the middle of Long Island Sound on the border between New Rochelle and Sands Point, New York. It stands 55 feet (17 m) tall, with a white light flashing every 10 seconds. The granite tower is painted white with a brown band around the middle. It has an attached stone keeper's house which has not been inhabited since the light was automated in 1979.
This island on which this lighthouse sits got its name from colonial New York, when prisoners were chained to the rocks during low tide. On March 3, 1847, the United States Congress appropriated $25,000 for creation of Execution Rocks Lighthouse. Designed by Alexander Parris, construction was completed in 1849, although it was not lit until 1850. Over the years, it has survived both a fire and a shipwreck.
The island is under the authority of the United States Coast Guard and is off limits to the public. It can be seen, however, during the Long Island Lighthouse Society's Spring Cold Coast Cruise, and from the Throgs Neck Bridge.
A Daboll trumpet was added to Execution Rocks Light on Jan 25, 1869.
Before being executed for murder, serial Killer Carl Panzram claimed in a posthumous autobiography that in the summer of 1920 that he raped and killed a total of ten sailors and dumped their bodies at sea near Execution Rocks Light.
On May 29, 2007, the Department of the Interior identified Execution Rocks Light Station as surplus under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000. The property was described as
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as Execution Rocks Light Station. On January 27, 2009, the Secretary of the Interior announced that Execution Rocks Light would be transferred to the Philadelphia-based Historically Significant Structures, which would partner with the Science Museum of Long Island to restore the light.
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