Robbins Reef Light, New Jersey
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 Robbins Reef Light Station |
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| Location: | Bayonne, New Jersey |
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| Foundation: | Granite block |
| Construction: | Brick / Cast iron |
| Year first lit: | 1883 |
| Deactivated: | N/A |
| Automated: | 1966 |
| Tower shape: | Conical |
| Height: | 46 feet |
| Original lens: | Fourth order Fresnel lens |
The Robbins Reef Light Station is a lighthouse located off Bayonne, New Jersey along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883. It replaced an octagonal granite tower built in 1839. The U.S. Coast Guard owns and operates the light station. Also called Kate's Light for Kate Walker who "manned" the station alone from the death of her husband Jacob in 1886 until 1919. She rowed her children to Staten Island for school.
[edit] External links
- Robbins Reef Data for station ID 8530973, Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System NOAA.
- Robbins Reef Light in NPS.
- Robbins Reef Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com
- Kate Walker, Keeper of Robbins Reef Light, 1894-1919, National Lighthouse Museum, 2001.
- Robbins Reef Lighthouse Lighthouses of the New Jersey Shore.
- Mind the Light, Katie: The History of Thirty-three Female lighthouse Keepers, Mary Louise Clifford and J. Candace Clifford, 2006. (ISBN 0-9636412-7-1)
- "3 Poems (from Robbins Reef Light)", Joel Lewis, Jacket Magazine 23, August, 2003.
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