Montauk Point Lighthouse – Montauk Library

Throwback Thursday — Arthur Dunne and the Lighthouse Occupation

Nov06^th2024byArchives

Staff Sergeant Arthur M. Dunne (1916-2009), a World War II veteran, first came to East Hampton in June 1942, the day after the Nazi saboteurs landed in Amagansett. The next month he was assigned to Montauk to install and operate a radar tower at the Montauk Point Lighthouse. By this time, the Coast Guard had… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Return of the Fresnel Lens

Nov29^th2023byArchives

Since 1796, the Montauk Point Lighthouse has served as a navigational aid to mariners, casting light from the land’s end and acting as a signal for the rocky shoreline. In its early years of operation, a lighthouse keeper attended to the whale oil-fueled lanterns, carrying eight lanterns up the interior spiral staircase and lighting the… Read more »