Penfield Reef Lighthouse

Penfield Reef is a mile long submerged rocky area located approximately one mile offshore of Fairfield and Bridgeport, Connecticut. Ships traversing the vicinity during the mid-1800’s would regularly hit the rocks. In 1868 a lighthouse inspector called Penfield Reef ‘one of the great dangers to the navigation of Long Island Sound’. As Bridgeport’s industries grew and shipping increased in the area, the clamor to build a lighthouse also increased.

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During the following years the lighthouse suffered from neglect and the wooden support beams rotted and leaks developed in the lantern. The Coast Guard made repairs in 2003 and planned to put the property up for auction in 2007. In 2008 a group known as Beacon Preservation, who currently own Maine’s Goose Rocks Lighthouse, was informed they were the high bidder. However, due to a legal squabble over the ownership of the bottomlands on which the lighthouse stood, Beacon Preservation abandoned their claim in 2011.

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