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The McGulpin Point Light, a true lighthouse with a light tower and attached lighthouse keeper's living quarters, was completed by the United States Lighthouse Board in 1869 at a cost of $20,000. The living quarters were built as a vernacular 1 1 ⁄ 2 -story brick structure.
The first lighthouse in the state, Fort Gratiot Light, was erected in 1825. ... McGulpin Point Light: Straits of Mackinac: Wawatam Township, Emmet County
The structure was deteriorating and was replaced in 1871 using a design that had previously been used for Chambers Island Lighthouse in Wisconsin; and McGulpin Point Light in 1868. It was thereafter used at White River Light in 1875; and Sand Island Light (Wisconsin) in 1881. [6]
Old Point Loma lighthouse: California [84] 46 feet (14 m) Gull Rock Light: Michigan ... McGulpin's Point Light: Michigan 38 feet (12 m) Lime Kiln Light: Washington
"This lighthouse is opposite the turning point for ships making the difficult passage through the Straits of Mackinac, one of the busiest crossroads of the Great Lakes. McGulpin Point Light, two miles to the west, had been established in 1856, but it was not visible from all directions. In 1889 Congress appropriated funds for the construction ...
This light is a twin of the Two Harbors Light in Minnesota. [6] Located in Coast Guard District 9, [12] the Round Island Light was built of painted brick in 1895; [13] its construction was funded by a predecessor agency of the United States Coast Guard, and the structure was raised b6 a team led by Mackinac Island mason-carpenter Frank Rounds.
The lighthouses previously built at McGulpin Point, Eagle Harbor, and White River, along with the St. Clair Flats Canal beacon (no longer standing), follow the same plan, while the Chambers Island lighthouse is a “mirror twin” to the Sand Island structure, with the same design reversed right to left.
Realizing that the addition of a rear range light would improve navigation, the Lighthouse Board requested that the unused funds be re-appropriated toward constructing a second light. [6] Congress agreed in 1897, and by 1898 the second light was fabricated and installed at the inner end of the pier.