page_title: Stamford Harbor Ledge Light
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Stamford Harbor Ledge Light / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard picture of Stamford Harbor Ledge Light, 1906 postmark. Picture shows a winter scene with snow and some people. Store Web page states: "Winter at the lighthouse. Postmarked Stamford CONN. Nov. 8th, 1906. nice Flag cancel cancellation postmark." This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 91000348
context_page_description: Stamford Harbor Ledge Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Connecticut, United States, on Chatham Rock off of Stamford, Connecticut. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
  The interior of the structure has seven levels. The upper balcony boasts sweeping views of the Stamford and Manhattan skylines, as well as Long Island Sound and Stamford Harbor. The lighthouse is accessed by a floating dock.
context_section_description: The Stamford Harbor Ledge lighthouse was built in 1882 and was a sparkplug lighthouse cast iron tower, manufactured in Boston. The light, 3,600 feet (1,100 m) from shore, was sold to a private party in 1955.
  Several lighthouse keepers and their families lived in the lighthouse at various times.
  In 2008, the property was put up for sale, with an asking price of $1.75 million as of September 25, 2008. By June 2009, the asking price had fallen to $1.595 million, according to the real estate agent's website. According to an advertisement for the real estate offering, the property includes the lighthouse, Chatham Rock and, in words that were in quotes in the advertisement, "surrounding underwater land embraced within a circle, seven hundred fifty (750) feet in diameter, the center of which is Chatham Rock".
caption: Winter scene, from a postcard mailed in 1906
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