Tidepieces - Black Rock Harbor Light / Fayerweather Island Lighthouse Tide Clock - NAVY

Exclusively available only from Mellow Monkey Handcrafted by local artisan, Alan Winick, this tide clock has the image of Black Rock Harbor Light on Fayerweather Island in Bridgeport, along with the harbor and Long Island Sound tide that rises and falls as the actual tide in your location goes from high to low. Black Rock Harbor is sheltered by 7-acre Fayerweather Island, making it the ideal place for a lighthouse to mark the harbor entrance.  The island was originally much larger and used mainly for the pasturing of sheep. The federal government purchased the island from Daniel Fayerweather for $200 in 1807. The first Fayerweather Island Lighthouse was built in 1808, which was destroyed in a hurricane in 1821. A new tower was constructed in 1823 proclaimed by the builder to have been "built to withstand the storm of ages." A fifth order Fresnel lens was installed in the mid 1850s. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1933 and replaced by two offshore lights. Over the following yea