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Quick Red Flashing Navigation Light
This "Quick Red Flashing" navigation light was donated to the museum by Ronald Bugenski MM2, former Assistant Lighthouse Keeper here at Beavertail from 1962 to 1965.
Hudson City Light Station Photograph
Hudson City Light Station photo was taken on May 11, 1936. The vent ball on top of its lantern room is now on display in this museum
Buoy Lamp and Solar Lamp Charger
This "12 Volt Lamp Charger" is used as a solar charger for "failed" lamps
The wire springs at each corner of the solar panels keep the sea birds from landing on the solar panels and defecating, thereby limiting the solar charging of the…
Red Marine Lantern
This "blinking Light" is one of the biggest "Single Piece Acrylic Fresnel Optic".
Manufactured by Tideland Signal Co, this type of light is often used in lighthouses, beacons, platforms, and channel markers as it is able to produce a stronger light…
Original Foundation Remains Poster
The foundation of the original Lighthouse informational Poster
A Beavertail Ghost?
This photo was taken in 2000 by Don Bucklin.
The article explains how Bucklin's wife, Hope, had seen a figure within the left window of one of the Lighthouse buildings.
Although not clearly defined, Bucklin could make out "a man in his twenties…
Gaslight Wall Panel
Wall Panel depicting the invention and history of gas lighting in Newport, RI, and at Beavertail Lighthouse.
Beavertail Lighthouse Model 1749-1754
This model of the Beavertail Lighthouse depicts how it may have appeared between 1749 to 1754.
However, we now know that this model is incorrect. The original lighthouse was octagonal, not circular.
Lighthouse Models in Display Case
These models represent the Lighthouse structures that have stood at Beavertail over the years
The model of the first lighthouse was constructed by Varoujan Karentz in 2020.
The maker of the second Lighthouse model is unknown.
The third model,…
Fresnel Lens Wall Exhibit
This wall panel provides the history of the Fresnel lens and its inventor Agustin Jean Fresnel.