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Pages in category "Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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. It is still active. [1]
Terry Pepper on lighthouses of the Western Great Lakes; Bibliography on Michigan and other lighthouses; A more comprehensive (and interactive with geographic locations) listing of Michigan lighthouses and museums, complete with pictures and descriptions; Detroit News, interactive map on Michigan lighthouses; Map of Michigan Lighthouse in PDF format
The Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy is a state preservation society, and the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association is also based in the state. [25] [29] White Shoal Light is one of over 150 past and present lighthouses in Michigan. Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state. See Lighthouses in the United States. [30] White Shoal Light
In the 1870s, 43 new lights were built on the Lakes. The 1880s saw more than one hundred lights constructed. [12] [13] As the new century began, on the Great Lakes the Lighthouse Board operated 334 major lights, 67 fog horns and 563 buoys. [12] [13] During the 19th century design of Great Lakes lights slowly evolved.
Emergency work to stabilize the light tower structure was conducted in the 1970s, but the light tower remained gutted and inoperative. Restoration work was conducted in 1995 [17] by the Friends of the Round Island Lighthouse and led by the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA), [18] aided by Boy Scouts of America Troop 323. [14]
Constructed in 1849 by congress, it is the oldest operating lighthouse in the Upper Peninsula. [12] All vessels entering or exiting Lake Superior pass near Whitefish Point. The area is infamously known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes" due to the high number of shipwrecks in the area, most famously the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. [13]
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.