Point Breeze

Point Breeze is a hamlet in Town of Carlton, Orleans County, New York. Point Breeze is situated nearby to the hamlet Rock Ledge Beach, as well as near Jones Beach.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oak Orchard Light.

Oak Orchard Light

Lighthouse

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Oak Orchard Light was a lighthouse that operated on the shores of Lake Ontario, in New York, United States, at Point Breeze from 1871 to 1916. In 2010 a local community group built a historically accurate replica of the lighthouse near the original site on the east side of Oak Orchard Creek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sawyer and Carlton.

Sawyer

Hamlet

Sawyer is a hamlet in the town of Carlton, Orleans County, New York, United States. It is named after John G. Sawyer, a congressman from New York. The settlement was previously named "Curtis's Corners" after John Curtis, a native of New Hampshire, who settled on lot 1, section 5 at Carlton in Orleans County. Sawyer is situated 2½ miles southeast of Point Breeze.

Carlton

Village

Photo: Ron Shawley, CC BY 3.0.

Carlton is a town in Orleans County, New York, United States. The population was 2,994 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from Carleton, a shipbuilding district near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Carlton is situated 3 miles south of Point Breeze.

Kuckville

Hamlet

Kuckville is a hamlet in the town of Carlton in Orleans County, New York, United States. It is named after Rev. George Kuck, an immigrant from Toronto, Ontario, Canada who settled in near the shore of Lake Ontario in 1815. Kuckville is situated 4 miles west of Point Breeze.

Point Breeze

Type: Hamlet
Also known as: “Pointbreeze”
Category: locality
Location: Town of Carlton, Orleans County, Niagara Frontier, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.37006° or 43° 22′ 12″ north

Longitude

-78.1903° or 78° 11′ 25″ west

Elevation

259 feet (79 metres)

Open location code

87M39RC5+2V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158657394

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

5131830

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