# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Before the Lights Staten Island and the Birth of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This first talk explores how Alexander Hamilton’s creation of the Revenue Marine —later known as the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service— and the work of early customs officers made Staten Island a key state and federal maritime outpost in the early republic. Focusing on an 1814 act that converted St. Andrews Church glebe at the Watering Place (present day Tompkinsville/St. George) into state and federal quarantine grounds, the talk will discuss how cutter operations, quarantine policy, and public health helped secure American commerce and shape the island’s emergence as a center of federal authority. Although intended to protect the port and the nation’s commerce from the importation of infectious disease, the 1814 act also planted the seeds for the growth of Tompkinsville ultimately fueling fear and resistance that culminated in the violent destruction of the state Quarantine Ground.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/staten-island/before-the-lights-staten-island-and-the-birth-of-the-us-revenue-cutter-service/200029825701908
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Staten Island
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, New York, NY, United States, New York 10301
- **lat**: 40.6416
- **long**: -74.07417
- **full address**: 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, New York, NY, United States, New York 10301, 201 The Promenade at Lighthouse Pt, Staten Island, NY 10301, United States

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Before the Lights Staten Island and the Birth of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service being held?
  - **A:** Before the Lights Staten Island and the Birth of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service takes place on Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm at 200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, New York, NY, United States, New York 10301, 201 The Promenade at Lighthouse Pt, Staten Island, NY 10301, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Before the Lights Staten Island and the Birth of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service?
  - **A:** Before the Lights Staten Island and the Birth of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service is organized by National Lighthouse Museum.

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