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The article offers information on the lighthouses at Lake Champlain in New York some of which were built as early as 1826. The Cumberland Head Light was constructed by Peter Comstock in 1838 while the Split Rock lighthouse was approved for construction by the U.S. Congress in 1832 as the second lighthouse in the lake. Also mentioned are the Point Au Roche lighthouse, the Crown Point lighthouse and the Barber's Point lighthouse.

Features lighthouses along the Hudson River. Jeffreys Hook lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge in New York; Tarrytown lighthouse near the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York City; Stony Point lighthouse near West Point, New York.

The author recommends several places in the New York State that offer beautiful foliage and scenery and considered as prime vacation destinations during the Fall season. For decades, even centuries, Long Island lighthouses guided passing ships. Now they serve as destinations themselves as travelers seek the nearly two dozen lighthouses found here. From Medina, home to the largest freight depot museum in the country, go north to the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, a national scenic byway.