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The depot was, according to the new museum, “the key manufacturing, storage, supply and maintenance center for the U.S. In 1862, several years after the hospital burned, the Staten Island Lighthouse Depot was erected in its place. And the museum’s site itself is filled with history: It’s the former location of the New York Marine Hospital (popularly called The Quarantine), a place where up to 1,500 immigrants could be held if suspected of being in “poor or questionable health”-and which, in 1858, “ a riotous mob of locals” burned down.

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This weekend, in honor of National Lighthouse Day on August 7, it’s offering free admission and a number of events in celebration of its grand opening, including talks from a noted MIT professor who doubles as a lightkeeper on a remote island in Lake Superior.

While the museum had a soft opening of sorts a few months back, it’s now officially welcoming visitors. New York’s Staten Island is now home to the National Lighthouse Museum, a non-profit site in the works since 1998 that displays the artifacts and cultural history of a sometimes-overlooked job-one in which people lived a lonely life on a tiny parcel of land to maintain a light that saved sailors’ lives.

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