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Stratford Soul Lights is located in the mid-northeast of New York and Connecticut (hence its middle name, Middleground Light), 5 nautical miles from New York's Old Field Point Light (9.3 km; 5.8m) and from Stratford Point Light of Connecticut 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) are located far away. There was some debate about the lighthouse in New York or Connecticut. It was initially in the state of New York, not Connecticut, which left the federal government's right to the lighthouse, but most modern formal maps are located within 1,000 feet (300 m) adjacent to Connecticut in Long Island Sound.

The lighthouse is located in Stratford (or midgound) Char, with a diameter of more than a mile and below the minimum shallow water, For many centuries the charts have been identified as dangerous for waterways.

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Adrian Block, the first European who searched for Long Island sounds, identified the two low islands in the location of the current Stratford Char on its 1614 sea journey. Between 100 and 200 years the islands are gradually deteriorating under water. In 1820, a pair of spar bows were first identified with the help of a pair of sparrow vessels for the boat. In 1831, the Congress approved $ 1,000 to create a warning in the park, but no action was taken in the project later. The signal was supposed to be the shape of the iron spindle.

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The Congress later approved $ 10,000 for "Floating Light for Middleground Long Island Sound". Created in 1837 in Northfox, Virginia, the lighthouse was 73 feet (22m) long and weighing 100 tons. It used to carry a lantern on each of its two flanks, with a hand driven bell and fogheron as a sign of fog. The lighthouse was anchored on January 12, 1938, on the southeast edge of Stratford Cher; After just eight days it flows from its specific place. The single anchor of the lightship shows the acute inability to stay in its place in the next years, even after adding the chain to the second and third chains. It had moved away from its place more than six times, most notably in 1875 when it was stuck in the Orion Point and in 1876 when it had flown on the island of Faulkner.

Stratford Soul lightship is named LV-15 when the lights are allocated to the common normal number; Previously it was known as "Middle Ground Floating Light", "Stratford Soul Lightsvasel" or "Stratford Point Lightweight".

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The Stratford Shaw lighthouse was completed in 1877 to replace the lightship. The lighthouse is made up of a small, man-made island (two exotic natural islands that sink in the ocean). Initially, it was maintained by the Lighthouse Protector. The lighthouse was automated in the 1970's and now it actively helps in the boat.

Its historical significance is as an example of rocky lighthouse design, which is used in the light lighthouse on the water before the use of the Sparkplagh lighthouse. There is a similarity with some lighthouse on the Hudson River, and "it exposes a huge cost and bold effort, which was necessary to place the designs in the unreliable water of Long Island Sound.