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Old Saybrook Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Saybrook Breakwater Light

Old Saybrook Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Saybrook Breakwater Light

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Saybrook Breakwater Light. Squat, iron, and shaped like a spark plug - which is exactly what everyone calls this kind of lighthouse, because that is exactly what it looks like.

The Saybrook Breakwater Light was established in 1886 at the mouth of the Connecticut River, where the state's longest river meets Long Island Sound and the sandbars have always shifted. The cast-iron caisson design was the era's answer to building in open water: prefabricate the tower, sink the base, let the ice slide off the flared skirt. Keepers lived inside the narrow tower. The 1938 hurricane put water over the whole structure and the light stayed.

Connecticut locals call it the Outer Light, and it marks the moment the river stops being a river. Generations of families have measured summer by passing it - out in June, back in September - and it has been standing there, unimpressed, for every one of those passages.

For the river family, the sailor, the one who has taken the same photo of it every summer.

Below are excerpts from our Old Saybrook history page. The Old Saybrook town logo and the full town story are available through the collection link above.

Printed on a three-inch faceted crystal glass round, white-backed so the bold black line reads from across a room and the garland's green catches tree light. The faceted edge throws light from every angle. Arrives boxed - white or gold gift box, your choice at checkout.

3-inch (76 mm) round crystal glass ornament · faceted gem-cut edge · white-backed print for crisp contrast · red ribbon hanger · your choice of white or gold gift box, included · free U.S. shipping.


QUICK FACTS — OLD SAYBROOK CT CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — SAYBROOK BREAKWATER LIGHT

Town: Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Founded: 1635 (Saybrook Colony); incorporated 1854

Known for: Connecticut’s oldest colony (1635); Lynde Point Light (1803); Katharine Hepburn’s Fenwick

Art: Saybrook Breakwater Light, original Merlin Classics engraving

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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Katharine Hepburn lived at the borough of Fenwick for most of her life and died there in 2003; the restored Main Street theater that bears her name opened in 2009.

The colony's first years were hard ones — Saybrook Fort stood under siege through the winter of 1636-37 during the Pequot War, and the settlement that survived grew slowly outward from the fort into a farming and seafaring town. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Old Saybrook was a working port: shipyards on the coves, oyster beds in the rivers whose names still say so, and captains' and merchants' houses rising around the green — the Hart House of 1767 and the James Pharmacy of 1790 among the survivors, and the South Green itself now a National Register district of that prosperous port century.

Why People Visit Old Saybrook Connecticut

  • Relax at Harveys Beach, shallow waters and soft sand for easy family time on Long Island Sound.
  • Walk Fort Saybrook Monument Park, interpretive signs marking the 1635 fort site near the marsh and the river mouth.
  • Tour the General William Hart House (1767), a Federal-era home with period rooms and gardens reflecting eighteenth-century town life.
  • Stroll Saybrook Point, boardwalks and marinas with views to Lynde Point Lighthouse (1803) at the river mouth.
  • Visit the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center on Main Street, an intimate restored theater hosting year-round performances.
  • Drive across the causeway to Fenwick borough, a quiet shoreline community of shingled houses on the peninsula between South Cove and the Sound.

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