Station Niagara, New York
Coast Guard Station #234
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Location:
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East side mouth Niagara River, 1/4 mile west northwest of Niagara on the Lake Front Light, Lake Ontario
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Date of Conveyance
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1892
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Station Built:
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1893
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Fate:
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Still in operation
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Station Type:
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Niagara-Type
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Winslow Griesser was appointed keeper on 8 JUL 1893 and transferred to Station Buffalo on 16 APR 1900.
James L. Price was appointed keeper on 25 APR 1900 and died on 26 MAY 1900.
Myron E. Clemons was appointed keeper on 14 AUG 1900 and died on 14 JUL 1908.
Albert D. Nelson was appointed keeper on 25 JUL 1908 and was still serving in 1915.
Photographs:
No caption/date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Upper photo: "Boathouse and Launching."; 1935; no photo number; photographer unknown.
Lower photo: "Before alterations, So. Side."; 1931; no photo number; photographer unknown.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.
Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.
U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.