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The Erie Land Light, also known as the Old Presque Isle Light, is a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It is one of the three lighthouses in Erie, along with the Presque Isle Light and the North Pier Light. The lighthouse is situated on the bluffs overlooking the lake in Lighthouse Park east of downtown Erie.
One of Erie's lighthouses is located at Presque Isle State Park while the other is on the city's east side. Both start their seasonal tours in May. Presque Isle, Erie Land lighthouses opening for ...
The first two U.S. lighthouses on the Great Lakes were completed in 1818—one in Buffalo, New York and the Erie Land Light at the entrance to Presque Isle Bay. [9] Ownership of the Presque Isle peninsula that formed the bay was transferred from a sailors' hospital to the federal government on May 17, 1871 "for the purposes of national defense ...
Erie Harbor North Pier Light: Presque Isle 1857 Unknown Active Unknown 42 ft (13 m ... Erie Land Light: Erie 1818 (Former) 1867 (Current) Never ...
The nonprofit already operates the Presque Isle Lighthouse at Presque Isle State Park and Erie Land Lighthouse on the city's east side. Officially known as the Erie Harbor North Pier Light ...
Location of Erie County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Erie County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
The Old Presque Isle Light was the first lighthouse in the Presque Isle, Michigan area, built in 1840, supported physically by two-thirds stone and one-third brick, [3] and supported financially by funds appropriated by Congress two years earlier of $5,000. [4]
Erie is in what was the disputed Erie Triangle, a tract of land comprising 202,187 acres in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania fronting Lake Erie that was claimed after the American Revolutionary War by the newly formed states of New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, as part of its Western Reserve, and Massachusetts.