33026. (lot 2 photos) Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Lake Champlain / Shelburne Museum, Vermont c.1959 – 1989.
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33026. (lot 2 photos) Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Lake Champlain / Shelburne Museum, Vermont c.1959 – 1989.
- (lot 2 photos) Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Lake Champlain / Shelburne Museum, Vermont c.1959 – 1989. Nice lot of two photos show the Colchester Reef Lighthouse with the steamboat Ticonderoga in the background. In 1869, when lumber transportation was at its peak on Lake Champlain, the Lighthouse Board recommended the construction of a lighthouse on Colchester Reef, southwest of South Hero Island, to mark a group of three dangerous shoals. The reef is located approximately a mile out into the lake from Colchester Point, and roughly seven miles northwest of Burlington. Today the lighthouse rests peacefully on the manicured grounds of the Shelburne Museum. Built in Shelburne in 1906, the Ticonderoga operated as a day boat on Lake Champlain, serving ports along the New York and Vermont shores until 1953. In 1955, it was moved two miles overland from the lake to Shelburne Museum in a remarkable engineering effort. The restored 220-foot steamboat is a National Historic Landmark and the last walking beam side-wheel passenger steamer in existence. The large photo measures 8” x 10” and is dated October 1989. The smaller photo measures 3” x 4 ½” and is dated November 1959. (VG+). $44.