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Eagle Harbor Light is an operational lighthouse at Eagle Harbor, in Keweenaw County in the state of Michigan. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It sits on the rocky entrance to Eagle Harbor and is one of several light stations that guide mariners on Lake Superior across the northern edge of the Keweenaw Peninsula .
The south pier has a 37-foot (11 m) steel tower navigational aid. This was constructed when the lighthouse was moved to the north pier in 1927. [2] Manistee Pierhead Light was put up for sale under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act in 2009. [9] On June 30, 2011, ownership of the light was transferred to the City of Manistee.
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]
Lake Breeze Hotel with the Eagle Harbor Light in the background. Edward Taylor and a group of men came to Eagle Harbor prior to the winter of 1842 and 1843, spending the winter on the lake shore between Copper Harbor and Eagle River. In the year of 1844, Taylor returned to Eagle Harbor and constructed a tavern out of logs, which later burned ...
St. Joseph was first platted in 1829, and the first lighthouse at the site, located on the shore, was built in 1832. Construction began on harbor piers in 1836, and by 1848 a beacon light had been established on the pier. The onshore lighthouse was replaced in 1859, and a new pierhead beacon was constructed on the south pier in 1870.
The Rock of Ages Light is a U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse on a small rock outcropping (50 by 200 feet (15 m × 61 m)) [9] approximately 2.25 miles (3.62 km) west of Washington Island and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Isle Royale, in Eagle Harbor Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan (see map below). It is an active aid to navigation. [10] [11]
Eagle Harbor, Michigan, an unincorporated community and census-designated place Eagle Harbor Coast Guard Station Boathouse, a historic building; Eagle Harbor Light, a lighthouse; Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse, a historic building; Eagle Harbor Township, Michigan; Eagle Harbor, New York, a hamlet; Eagle Harbor (Washington), an inlet in Bainbridge ...
The Eagle River Lighthouse was sold by the Vertin family in the 1990s to Edward “Bud” Cole, a historic preservationist with a family lineage in the Keweenaw dating back to the 1850s. Along with the Eagle River Lighthouse, he also owns several other historically significant buildings in Eagle River and over 4000 acres of the Eagle River ...