Olcott Light was built on a pier in Olcott, New York at Eighteen Mile Creek, named for being eighteen miles from the Niagara River at Lake Ontario. The light was no longer needed in the 1930s, and was moved to a local yacht club, where it resided until the early 1960s when it was destroyed. In the summer of 2003, a replica was built from old photographs.
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“My wild Irish Rose,
The sweetest flow’r that grows.”
—Chauncey Olcott (1858–1932)
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That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall; so light is vanity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)