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Located in Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior, it is owned and managed by the National Park Service, and is a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. [8] It sits at the end of a long and detached breakwater , which creates an artificial harbor.
The end of Chequamegon Bay is known as the site of the first dwelling in present-day Wisconsin to have been occupied by European men. Two French fur traders , Médard des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson , built a hut somewhere on the west shore of the bay, probably in 1658.
Chequamegon Point Light ; Location: Long Island, Wisconsin Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1896 : Foundation: Originally on a concrete pier: Construction: Iron: Automated: 1964: Height: 35 feet (11 m): Shape: White skeletal: Light; First lit: 1896: Focal height: 42 feet (13 m) [2]: Lens: Fourth order Fresnel lens: Range: 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) [1]: Characteristic: Fl G 4s : The ...
The region is served by the Chequamegon Bay Arts Council, a non-profit organization promoting the arts in northern Wisconsin. The Ashland Chamber Music Society is a volunteer organization that provides a venue for local and regional musicians to perform chamber music in the Ashland area.
Chequamegon Point is a peninsula that extends into Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin, in the Town of Sanborn, in Ashland County, Wisconsin. [1] Long Island is an extension of Chequamegon Point. Most of Chequamegon Point is owned by the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
Other lighthouses in the Apostle islands include both Old and New Michigan Island Lights, New La Pointe Light and Chequamegon Point Light on Long Island, Devils Island Light, and Outer Island Light. The ruins of Old LaPointe Light can still be seen on Long Island, approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) away from the wreckage of the schooner Lucerne.
An early map of Chequamegon Bay. The ferry Nichevo II, about to leave for Madeline Island. Nichevo is Russian for "no matter". [1] Madeline Island is an island in Lake Superior. Located in Ashland County, Wisconsin, it has long been a spiritual center of the Lake Superior Chippewa.
The Reserve includes areas of national significance, including the world's largest freshwater bay mouth sand bar (Wisconsin Point), estuarine wetlands, and steep highly erodible red clay bluffs. Significant historic and cultural sites exist within or adjacent to the boundary including Native American cultural sites throughout the estuary and on ...