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Ludington ( / ˈlʌdɪŋtən / LUH-ding-tən) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat and the largest city in Mason County. [5] The population was 7,655 at the 2020 census. [3] The city is located at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River at Lake Michigan.
August 04, 1983. Designated MSHS. May 19, 1988 [10] Big Sable Point Light is a lighthouse on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located within Ludington State Park just north of the city of Ludington. [11] First constructed in 1867, it continues to be an active navigational aid.
The Ludington Light is a 57-foot (17 m) tall steel-plated lighthouse in Ludington, Michigan, which lies along the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, at the end of the breakwater on the Pere Marquette Harbor. Given its location on the northern breakwater where the Pere Marquette River meets Lake Michigan, it is sometimes known as the Ludington ...
Ludington State Park is a public recreation area located two miles north of Ludington, Michigan, occupying 5,300 acres (2,100 ha) between the shores of Lake Michigan and Hamlin Lake. The state park is crossed by a one-mile stretch of the Big Sable River and is home to the 112-foot-high (34 m) Big Sable Point Lighthouse , which dates from 1876.
2016 generation. -752 GW·h. The Ludington Pumped Storage Plant is a hydroelectric plant and reservoir in Ludington, Michigan. It was built between 1969 and 1973 at a cost of $315 million and is owned jointly by Consumers Energy and DTE Energy and operated by Consumers Energy. At the time of its construction, it was the largest pumped storage ...
Coordinates: 43°55′38″N86°26′43″W43.92722°N 86.44528°W. Mason County Historical Society, located in Ludington, Michigan, is a private, non-profit, educational organization. It has an outdoor museum dedicated to preserving the local history of Mason County, Michigan. Nineteenth-century history is shown with White Pine Village, and ...
History Ludington-based short line. The Mason and Oceana was originally built by the Butters family, at a cost of $178,000, to help exploit the old-growth timber resources of this part of Michigan. The M&O's service area, in southeastern Mason County and northern Oceana County, lacked the rivers used in other parts of Michigan to transport ...
Pere Marquette Railway. The Pere Marquette Railway ( reporting mark PM) was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States and southern parts of Ontario in Canada. It had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo; Toledo; and Chicago.