Open Air Museum
Railroads & Shipping
Lights & Lighthouses

Open Air Museum · A Self-Guide Tour

These landmarks serve as a living gallery, transforming the town itself into an open-air museum. Each highlighted location represents a piece of our local heritage—from weather-worn maritime relics to forgotten architectural landmarks—that remain where history left it.

A historical black and white photograph of a large vintage steamship with American flags, docked in a harbor with a forested shoreline in the background.

St. Louis Shipwreck - photo provided by Cape Vincent Historical Museum

Colorful playground equipment in a park with trees and a body of water in the background.

Seaway Buoys
photo by Dennis McCarthy

A multi-story stone building with green decorative trim and multiple windows. The entrance has a white wooden porch with stairs, and there is a sign on the porch indicating it is an aquarium. The sky is partly cloudy, and trees are visible nearby.

DEC Fisheries Research Station and Aquarium - photo by Stacie Rogers

White lighthouse with black top, situated on green grass near the ocean, with cloudy sky overhead.

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
photo by Dennis McCarthy

A historic cannon displayed on a grassy area overlooking a lake, with trees and a partly cloudy sky in the background.

Rose & Crown Iron Gun
photo by Dennis McCarthy

A park scene with playground equipment made of large wooden beams and chains, surrounded by flower pots, benches, trees, and parked cars, with buildings in the background under a clear sky.

Historic Anchors on the Village Green
photo by Dennis McCarthy

An old cannon mounted on a wooden carriage facing the water, with a historical sailing ship in the distance on the water, surrounded by woven wooden fences and plants.

Fort Haldimand
artistic visualization of the site

Black and white photo of a small lighthouse on the water with a bird flying nearby.

Breakwater Lighthouse
1949 photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard

Exterior view of a building with stone walls and a blue metal roof, featuring a sign for the Chamber of Commerce Information, red and black benches, and a large mural of a man.

Cape Vincent Historical Museum
photo by Dennis McCarthy

A rural scene with a body of water, grassy fields, and trees. There is a large wooden barn and a cluster of white buildings in the background under a clear blue sky.

The Hatchery Ponds
artistic visualization of the site

Cape Vincent’s Railroads & Shipping

A tall white lighthouse on a grassy area by the ocean, with a small white building and a brown structure nearby, under a partly cloudy sky.

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
photo by Dennis McCarthy

A lighthouse on a small rocky island surrounded by water under a cloudy sky.

East Charity Shoal Lighthouse
photo by Kevin Matkoski

Black and white photo of a lighthouse on a small pier with a single seagull flying nearby over water.

Breakwater Lighthouse
1949 photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard

A lakeside scene with a sailboat on calm water, a small white boathouse, a house on a hill, trees, and a tall radio tower in the background at sunset.

Carleton Island Light
artistic visualization of the site

Cape Vincent’s Lights & Lighthouses

A tall white lighthouse with a black top stands on a grassy area near the ocean, with a small white building and a red utility shed nearby, under a partly cloudy sky.

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
photo by Dennis McCarthy

A lighthouse on a rocky island surrounded by water with no people visible.

East Charity Shoal Lighthouse
photo by Kevin Matkoski

Black and white photo of a small lighthouse on the water with a bird flying in the sky.

Breakwater Lighthouse
1949 photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard

A sailboat on water near a small wooded island with trees, a radio tower, and several small buildings, including a boathouse, with a residential house nearby.

Carleton Island Light
artistic visualization of the site