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The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in Michigan at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan. The station was built in 1832 with the current lights built in 1906 and 1907; [1] [4] they were decommissioned in 2005.
January 16, 1976. 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 ...
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The South Haven South Pierhead Light is a lighthouse in Michigan, at the entrance to the Black River on Lake Michigan. The station was lit in 1872, and is still operational. The tower is a shortened version of the Muskegon South Pierhead Light, and replaced an 1872 wooden tower. The catwalk is original and still links the tower to shore: it is ...
March 30, 1973. The Stannard Rock Light is a lighthouse located on a reef that was the most serious hazard to navigation on Lake Superior. [6] [7] [8] The exposed crib of the Stannard Rock Light is rated as one of the top ten engineering feats in the United States. [9] It is 24 miles (39 km) from the nearest land, making it the most distant ...
The Erie Harbor North Pier Light, also known as the Presque Isle North Pier Light, is one of the three lighthouses near Erie, Pennsylvania in the United States. The light, situated at the far eastern end of Presque Isle State Park, helps mariners as they traverse the narrow inlet between Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay. [1]
History. An 1896 project to improve harbor facilities resulted in the reconstruction of the sides of the Duluth Ship Canal, bracketing it in the two concrete piers which define its channel to the present. [4] While the south pier had been equipped with a light from 1874, the north pier was unlit, and given the difficult approach (highlighted by ...
Added to NRHP. July 27, 2005. Spectacle Reef Light is a lighthouse 11 miles (18 km) east of the Straits of Mackinac and is located at the northern end of Lake Huron, Michigan. [8] It was designed and built by Colonel Orlando Metcalfe Poe and Major Godfrey Weitzel, [9] and was the most expensive lighthouse ever built on the Great Lakes.