NOAA maintains weather station FWIC3 on the island.[3]
History
1807: Island purchased from David Fayerweather by the US Government.[4]
1823: The present lighthouse was built, with four-foot-thick rubble walls faced with brownstone ashlar, to replace an earlier wooden structure that had been washed away in a hurricane. A keeper's house was constructed at the same time.
1837–38: A granite
seawall—called "the fortification"—was constructed to help maintain the integrity of the island and lighthouse station. It was extended across what had become little more than a sandbar to connect with a larger portion of Fayerweather Island in 1849.[5]
1844: Lantern of lighthouse reconstructed
1873: Keeper's house rebuilt, with self-sufficient cistern water supply.
1894: Dredging project completed, providing 6-foot-deep (1.8 m) channel around the island into the harbor at low tide. Seawall repaired & improved.[5]
1911: Island acquired by the city of Bridgeport. Reconstruction of the seawall is begun that would connect the island to the western end of
Seaside Park.[6]
1919: New seawall and roadway completed that connected the upper portion of Fayerweather Island (now the western end of the park mainland) to the older portions of Seaside Park.
1933: Lighthouse decommissioned.
1977: Keeper's house destroyed by fire.
1986: A state-record 17 lb 14 oz
weakfish was caught on the island.[7]
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abUnited States. Army. Corps of Engineers; United States. Mississippi River Commission (1895).
Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army. U.S. Government Printing Office. p.
857. Retrieved 2014-10-14.