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Over time there have been several lighthouses at Admiral's Point at the entrance to Trinity Harbour in Trinity, Newfoundland, Canada.
Fort Point Lighthouse was named because of a fort that occupied the site. The first Fort Point Lighthouse dates back to 1871 and was often referred to as Trinity Light or Admiral's Point Light.
An 1873 newspaper article referred to the lighthouse as a beacon atop a 75 foot tower with the apparatus being a dioptric of the 8th order displaying a fixed white light. In 1921 the lighthouse was demolished in favor of a white cylindrical tower, which lasted until the late 1960s when it was demolished. In the 1980s a skeletal tower was erected at the site. In 2003 a new tower was built at the site, which is now a park.
We'd like to learn more about this lighthouse and the keepers who tended the lighthouse.
This story appeared in the
October 2009 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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