
Tidepieces - Rose Island Newport Light Tide Clock - Black Flat Panel
Exclusively available only from Mellow Monkey Handcrafted by local artisan, Alan Winick, this tide clock has the image of Rose Island Light, built in 1870, is on Rose Island in Narragansett Bay in Newport, Rhode Island, with a tide that rises and falls as the actual tide in your location goes from high to low. One of a group of New England lighthouses built to an award-winning design by Vermont architect Albert Dow, Rose Island Light has sisters at Sabin Point, Pomham Rocks, Esopus Meadows Light and Colchester Reef. The lighthouse stands atop a bastion of Fort Hamilton, which was built in 1798-1800. The building was abandoned as a functioning lighthouse in 1970, when the Newport Bridge was constructed nearby. In 1984, the Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation was founded to restore the dilapidated light on behalf of the City of Newport, which had received it for free from the United States government The lighthouse is today a travel destination, reached only by boat. For a fee to t