Orient Point Light is a sparkplug lighthouse off Orient Point, New York.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Orient Point Light (along with 11 others) available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them.
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