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Notes:
Horseshoe Reef Light, built to mark a reef that was a hazard on the approach to the Port of Buffalo, originally consisted of wooden keeper's quarters on an iron framework, surmounted by a lantern. The structure gradually disappeared after the light was deactivated in 1920, and now the tower has been lost.
Height of Focal Plane: 50
Description of Tower: Lantern on roof of wooden keeper's quarters.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1856
Date Present Tower Built: 1856
Date Deactivated: 1920
Optics: 1856: Fourth order Fresnel lens;
Current Use: Destroyed.
Keepers: Daniel D. Hill (1904-?).
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