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The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in St. Joseph, Michigan, US, 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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Michigan as identified by the United States Coast Guard. Michigan is home to lights on four of the Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair and connecting waterways. The first lighthouse in the state, Fort Gratiot Light, was erected in 1825.
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 .
St. Joseph, colloquially known as St. Joe, is a city and the county seat of Berrien County, Michigan. It was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1891. [ 4 ] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 7,856. [ 5 ] It lies on the shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the St. Joseph River, about 90 miles (140 km) east ...
NRHP reference No. 84001391 [9] Added to NRHP. July 19, 1984. The White Shoal Light is a lighthouse located 20 miles (32 km) west of the Mackinac Bridge in Lake Michigan. [10][11] It is an active aid to navigation. [3] It is also the tallest lighthouse on the Great Lakes.
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 (from ...
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Most of the included Michigan areas are in the green oval, but some parts of the Upper Peninsula are in the red. More: Michigan dark sky parks, sanctuaries are best spots to see northern lights, stars