The Little Red Lighthouse, located under the George Washington Bridge along a treacherous section of the Hudson River once known as Jeffrey’s Hook. Erected on Sandy Hook, New Jersey in 1880, it was dismantled in 1917. In 1921 the Coast Guard reconstructed the lighthouse on Jeffrey's Hook. In 1931 the brighter lights of the new George Washington Bridge made the lighthouse obsolete. The Coast Guard tried to auction off the lighthouse. The children’s book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, written by Hildegarde Swift, illustrated by Lynd Ward and published in 1942, provide the fame and public awareness needed to cancel the auction.