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The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in St. Joseph, Michigan, ... The rear tower is a square steel structure, 24 feet on a side, ...
Description. The Pentwater navigational structures consist of two concrete piers extending into Lake Michigan. At the end of the north pier sits a cylindrical modified "D9-type" tower topped with a 300-millimeter flashing green acrylic optic at a focal plane of 43 feet (13 m). [4] At the end of the south pier sits a steel skeleton tower topped ...
The Holland Harbor Light, known as Big Red, is located in Park Township, Michigan at the entrance of a channel connecting Lake Michigan with Lake Macatawa, and which gives access to the city of Holland, Michigan . The lighthouse is on the south side of the channel. There are two modern lights marking the ends of the breakwaters that extend out ...
The Seul Choix Light is a lighthouse located in the northwest corner of Lake Michigan in Schoolcraft County, Michigan. [3][6] The station was established in 1892 with a temporary light, [7] and this light started service in 1895, and was fully automated in 1972. It is an active aid to navigation. [3] There is now a museum at the light and both ...
June 7, 2012. Designated MSHS. February 22, 1974. The Copper Harbor Light is a lighthouse located in the harbor of Copper Harbor, Michigan USA on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan inside Fort Wilkins Historic State Park. [3][1][4] It is a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The light station pier is shaped like a vessel. Its pointed end is directed toward the mouth of the river to break river-powered ice floes. Above the crib and pier, the 49 feet (15 m) high cast iron boiler plate tower is 22 feet (6.7 m) in diameter at its base and 18 feet (5.5 m) at the top. [11] There is an attached storage building and radio ...
The Stannard Rock Reef is located off Keweenaw Peninsula about 24 miles (39 km) south of Manitou Island and 44 miles (71 km) north of Marquette, Michigan. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] In 1835, Captain Charles C. Stannard of the vessel John Jacob Astor first discovered this underwater mountain that extends for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) with depths as shallow as 4 ...
August 21, 1974. The Round Island Light, also known as the Old Round Island Point Lighthouse, [6] is a lighthouse located on the west shore of Round Island in the shipping lanes of the Straits of Mackinac, [7] which connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. [6][8][9] It was deemed necessary because the island is a significant hazard to navigation ...