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Erika’s Spa De Beaute & Salon............................. 6
Jewel of Himalaya Restaurant............................. 7
Putnam Valley Florist.............................................. 7
Chicory Meadow Farm........................................... 8
Roe Park Service Center....................................... 9
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Westchester County
Tarrytown Lighthouse
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.
The lighthouse is situated just off the riverbank
at the southern end of Kingsland Point
Park. A 100-foot pedestrian bridge and riprap
breakwater connects it to the shore. To
its immediate east is a large vacant area,
once the site of the General Motors North
Tarrytown Assembly plant. Between it and
the developed sections of Tarrytown are the
tracks used by Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson
Line, Amtrak’s Empire Service and CSX
freight. The three-mile–long Tappan Zee
Bridge carries the New York State Thruway
across the river a mile to the south. Navigational
aids had been part of travel on the
river since before Europeans had arrived,
and the hazardous shoals near the Tarrytowns
had long been known. But even after
the growth in commerce fueled by industrialization
during the 19th century, it took a
considerable amount of time to find a site
for the lighthouse. It remained in service until
the Tappan Zee Bridge’s construction made
it redundant; since then expansion of the
shoreline has also ended its isolation.
The building itself is a five-story conical
structure on a foundation of a stone pier
and cast iron caisson that holds a concrete
cylinder which accounts for half the light-
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