Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.
The Sands Point Lighthouse is located in Nassau County of Long Island New York along its northern coast in the Town of North Hempstead. The fourth lighthouse to be established on Long Island this 1809 stone tower was built by an American Revolutionary War veteran who stayed on as its first keeper for many years. The Lighthouse is sometimes referred to the Mitchell Lighthouse after Samuel L. Mitchell the man who fought for it to be constructed.