Five Mile Point Light

Five Mile Point Light, otherwise called Five Mile Point Lighthouse or Old New Haven Harbor Lighthouse, is a U.S. beacon in Long Island Sound on the bank of New Haven, Connecticut. Situated at the passageway to New Haven Harbor, the reference point's name gets from its nearness to Downtown New Haven, around five miles 8 km away. The first beacon comprised of a 30-foot 9.1 m octagonal wooden pinnacle worked in 1805 by Abisha Woodward.

In 1847, another 80-foot 24 m octagonal pinnacle was developed by Marcus Bassett with East Haven brownstone. This new reference point was enlightened by 12 lights with reflectors which were situated 97 feet 30 m above ocean level. Likewise built right now was a two-and-one-half story block house which supplanted the past, crumbling attendant's home. A fourth-arrange Fresnel focal point supplanted the lights in 1855 and a haze chime was included the 1860s.