Picture Connecticut: Can't Get Any Further South

CONNECTICUT — We can't go any further south with the latest image in the Picture Connecticut series.

This week, its a depiction of the famed Great Captain Island (the locals call it Captain's Island) lighthouse. The lighthouse was featured in a in a series of sketches by popular Greenwich artist William Connolly in the 1970s. Connolly gifted a copy to the late Herman Dehnel while he was in the Greenwich Police Department Marine Division.

The 17.2-acre land mass sits off the coast of Greenwich in Long Island Sound and its coordinates (40°58′57″N 73°37′24″W) tell us it's the extreme southern part of Connecticut — and New England.

It was acquired by the town in 1973 and is home to a 1800s lighthouse. It has long been replaced by a metal automated navigational lighted tower, but was restored in 2009 and then re-lit for non-nautical purposes three years later, according to town records.

Access to the island is via boat or a ferry run by the town in the warmer months. A short distance away are the other two islands in a chain — Little Captain Island (which serves as the town's Island Beach via ferry service) and Wee Captain Island (traditionally a private residence).

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present.

Here are past images:

2024

• Bobblehead Madness, Storrs
• Bobby Sands/Hunger Strike Memorial, Hartford
• Mr. Jonathan Goes To Hartford, Hartford
• The Latest Discount Airline, New Haven
• State Groundhog Gets Arrested, Manchester
• Historic Wartime Sutures, Willington
• Big Business Week In CT, statewide
• The Marketplace at Guilford Food Center Guilford
• Main Street at night, Middletown
• The Hide-and-Seek Bear, Tolland
• The MLK Mural, Manchester
• The Mount Southington Summit, Southington

2023

• All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
• Riverside Igloos, Milford
• The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
• The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
• Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
• UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
• The Doughboy, East Hartford
• The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
• The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
• The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
• The Notch, Granby
• The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
• Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
• Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester