Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Light, Oswego

Name: Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Light
Address: Oswego, United States

#2 among attractions in Oswego

Top attraction, Lighthouse, Vernacular architecture

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Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Light, Oswego

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Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation located off the coast of Oswego, New York. It was built in 1934 to replace an earlier light constructed in 1880. It stands at the end of a 2,000-foot-long breakwater at mouth of Oswego River, extending.5 miles out onto Lake Ontario. It is accessible by boat or from land over the abutting breakwater. It is not open to the public. It is owned by the City of Oswego and operated by the United States Coast Guard. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ()

Coordinates: 43°28'24"N, 76°31'0"W

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Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Light – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Fort Ontario, Richardson-Bates House, H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego Public Library.

0.7 miSE
Museum, Forts and castles
Fort Ontario, Oswego
18 min walk • Fort Ontario is an American historic bastion fort situated by the City of Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is owned by the state of New York and operated as a museum known as Fort Ontario State Historic Site.
1.4 miSE
Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
Richardson-Bates House, Oswego
36 min walk • Richardson-Bates House is a historic home located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is constructed primarily of brick and built in two stages. The main section is a 2+1⁄2-story, Tuscan Villa style brick residence with a gable roof and 4-story tower designed by architect Andrew Jackson Warner about 1867.
0.7 miS
Museum, Maritime museum
H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego
18 min walk • The H. Lee White Marine Museum is located in Oswego, New York. It was founded in 1982 by Rosemary Sinnett Nesbitt, a local professor and the City of Oswego Historian. Nesbitt retired from directorship of the museum in 2008 after completing 25 years of service.
1.3 miSE
Library
Oswego Public Library, Oswego
33 min walk • Oswego City Library is a historic library building located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It has also been known as the Oswego School District Public Library. It was built in about 1855 and is a two-story brick structure over a full basement.
1.2 miS
Concerts and shows, Theater
Oswego Theater, Oswego
32 min walk • Oswego Theater, now known as Oswego 7 Cinemas, is a historic movie theater located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was designed in 1940 in the Art Deco style and opened in 1941. The front features bands of yellow, red, and dark red brick that create broad horizontal and perpendicular belts.
0.7 miSE
Harbor
Port of Oswego, Oswego
19 min walk • The Port of Oswego is the main waterfront area of the City of Oswego in Oswego County, New York. Over the course of its history, the Port of Oswego has been the focus of military conflict and conquest, asite of record trade revenue, and a significant part in the History of American expansion and industrialism.
1 miSE
Museum, History museum
Safe Haven Museum and Education Center, Oswego
27 min walk • The Safe Haven Museum and Education Center is a museum in Oswego, New York that tells the story of 982 mainly Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the U.S. Government "Safe Haven" program. They came to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, in August 1944.
1.2 miSE
Architecture
Oswego County Courthouse, Oswego
32 min walk • Oswego County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1859-1860 and altered in 1891 and again in 1962. The two story building rises above a cruciform plan and is constructed of load bearing masonry walls faced with smooth ashlar limestone.
0.8 miS
43°27'41"N • 76°30'51"W
Oswego Valley Railroad Association and Oswego Railroad Museum, Oswego
22 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
0.7 miS
Ship
Nash, Oswego
18 min walk • Nash is a World War II U.S. Army Large Tug class seagoing tugboat built as hull #298 at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay NY as a Design 271 steel-hulled Large Tug delivered November, 1943. Originally named Major Elisha K. Henson, in 1946 she was renamed John F. Nash by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
0.8 miS
Ship
Derrick Boat No. 8, Oswego
21 min walk • Derrick Boat No. 8, also known as DB 8, is a historic floating derrick located at Oswego, Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1927, and it is one of the few surviving steam-powered floating derricks to have worked on the New York State Barge Canal.

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Nearby attractions include Fort Ontario, Oswego (18 min walk), H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego (18 min walk), Nash, Oswego (18 min walk), Port of Oswego, Oswego (19 min walk).