Also Known As Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse;
My replica of the Conimicut Lighthouse
comes with your choice of:

• Cedar Wood Construction for either indoor or outdoor display
• Pine Wood Construction for indoor use only

The base price includes:

• Aluminum exterior light housing
• Brass and Copperand Reinforced Plastic Resin railings
• Windows that reflect light
• Standard 40 Watt Bulb, 120 Volt AC incandescent light fixture
• Hand crafted and hand painted detail
• Choice of interior or exterior wiring on Cedar replicas
• Interior wiring with In Line On/Off switch on Pine replicas

Options available for the Conimicut Lighthouse are:

• Nightlight 7 Watt Bulb, small base light fixture and lantern lens
• Flashing Beacon Kit and lantern lens
• In Line On/Off switch for interior wiring on Cedar replicas
• Outdoor Photo-electric cell for dusk to dawn operation
• Inside Photo-electric cell for automatic night light operation
• 3 to 21 foot Vinyl Coated Galvanized Steel security cable
• Historical Appearance

My Conimicut Lighthouse has a 13" x 10 " (minimum inside dimension), open Caisson base and can be used to hide or cover objects on your lawn like Well Pump heads. The caisson height can also be custom ordered to suit your needs

HEIGHT: 37 Inches
WIDTH: 16 Inches
SHAPE: Conical
WEIGHT: 21 Pounds
SCALE: 1 to 24

The narrow passage from the Narragansett Bay to the Providence River was originally marked with a lighthouse on the eastern side at Nyatt Point in 1828. While this original tower and keeper's house remain as a private residence, the towers use was discontinued in 1868 with the construction of the first Conimicut Point Shoal Lighthouse. On the western side of the mouth of the river opposite Nyatt Point is Conimicut Point. Extending from Conimicut Point is a dangerous sandbar that the light on Nyatt Point was insufficient to mark. A day mark was erected by 1858 and had been replaced with a spar buoy and then a round granite block tower in 1866. Heeding a petition by local Ship Masters and Owners of Vessels, the granite daymark was converted to a lighthouse in 1868. No keeper's residence was built however so the keeper remained in the Nyatt Point residence and commuted a mile each way by rowboat to tend to the light. After several years of appropriation requests, funding for a keeper's house to be built on the Conimicut light station's pier were approved and the keeper moved out of Nyatt Point. The government intended to auction the Nyatt Point property as excess but fortunately didn't rush to do so. Drifting ice smashed into the pier in March 1875 and destroyed the new keeper's house. The keeper and his young son were the only occupants at the time and were rescued from an ice floe several hours later by a local tug boat captain. After several month of recovery (probably from frostbite) the keeper resumed his duties again working out of the Nyatt Point keeper's house. Adequate funding to repair the decaying 1866 tower, replace the keeper's house and maintain the boat landing never materialized and the station was declared beyond repair in 1880. The Lighthouse Board opted to replace it with a "spark plug" light which would include an integral keeper's residence using the newly designed caisson with cast iron tower that exists today. The new Conimicut Lighthouse entered service in 1883 and the aging granite tower was removed.

The 1883 lighthouse was equipped with a 4th order Fresnel lens displaying a fixed white light visible for 13 nautical miles. A red sector marked the sand bar, the Conimicut Shoals. A fog bell was mounted on the 2nd gallery deck. The station was electrified via shore cable in 1960 and automated and destaffed in 1963. The
station was solar powered in 2003 but the shore cable remains as a back up. Ownership was transferred from the US Coast Guard to the City of Warwick, RI in 2004 and a non profit preservation group the Conimicut Lighthouse Foundation was formed in 2005 to take the lead role in fundraising for the stations repair and maintenance.

The 58 foot white cast iron tower sitting on a red caisson is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Conimicut Lighthouse remains an active aid to navigation. The lighthouse is now equipped with a modern optic that gives a white flash every 2.5 seconds retaining a red sector facing the shoals.

November 2004 Issue, Conimicut Lighthouse: Transferred to Rhode Island Community by Jeremy D'Entremont. "The 1883 “sparkplug-style” lighthouse was transferred under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 (NHLPA). Officials of the Department of the Interior, the U. S. Coast Guard and the General Services Administration (GSA) came to the Elizabeth Buffum Chace House in Warwick for the event." Please go to the Lighthouse Digest Magaizine Archives to read this article. Lighthouse Digest magazine not only keeps the history of our lighthouses alive both in print and on line, but it is the best single source to keep current on all aspects of lighthouse preservation, news and events