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.

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

Seaway Buoys
photo by Dennis McCarthy

DEC Fisheries Research Station and Aquarium - photo by Stacie Rogers

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
photo by Dennis McCarthy

Rose & Crown Iron Gun
photo by Dennis McCarthy

Historic Anchors on the Village Green
photo by Dennis McCarthy

Fort Haldimand
artistic visualization of the site

Breakwater Lighthouse
1949 photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard

Cape Vincent Historical Museum
photo by Dennis McCarthy

The Hatchery Ponds
artistic visualization of the site

Cape Vincent’s Lights & Lighthouses

Tibbetts Point Lighthouse
photo by Dennis McCarthy

East Charity Shoal Lighthouse
photo by Kevin Matkoski

Breakwater Lighthouse
1949 photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard

Carleton Island Light
artistic visualization of the site