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.
Read more about Orient Point Light: Cultural
Famous quotes containing the words orient, point and/or light:
“Of all that Orient lands can vaunt,
Of marvels with our own competing,
The strangest is the Haschish plant,
And what will follow on its eating.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.”
—A.J. (Alfred Jules)
“for beauty with sorrow
Is a burden hard to be borne:
The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there;
That music, remote, forlorn.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)