Lighthouses

April 2, 2007

Indiana Lighthouses

Filed under: lighthouse lists — karin @ 8:57 pm

Indiana has a very small number of lighthouses, tucked waaayyy down in the bottom of Lake Michigan. My primary source for this list is Great Lakes Lighthouses: American & Canadian [GLL] by Wes Oleszewski, but I have also made use of The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of The Upper Great Lakes [NL] by Charles K. Hyde.

  1. Old Michigan City Light [GLL]
  2. Michigan City East Pier Light [GLL]
  3. Michigan City Breakwater Light [NL]
  4. Gary Breakwater Light [GLL]
  5. Buffington Breakwater Light [GLL]
  6. Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Light [GLL]

Michigan Lighthouses

Filed under: lighthouse lists — karin @ 8:29 am

I’m going to start with the easternmost corner of the state, with lighthouses of Lake Erie [St. Clair River/Lake St. Clair], and then move on to the Lake Huron lighthouses, working my way westward along the lake until I get to the Straits of Mackinac which feeds into Lake Michigan, and then go down the eastern coast of Lake Michigan until we get to Indiana. Skipping over the lighthouses in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, we’ll pick it back up again in the upper half of the state on the western side of Lake Michigan, and then doubling back to the lighthouses on Lake Superior. My primary source for this list is Great Lakes Lighthouses: American & Canadian [GLL], by Wes Oleszewski; however, I have also made extensive use of Pinpoint Guide to Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses [PGEGLL] by Ray Jones, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia [GLLE], by Larry & Patricia Wright, Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: Your Guide to the Region’s Historic Lighthouses [LGL] by Todd E. Berger and Daniel E. Dempster, and The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of The Upper Great Lakes [NL] by Charles K. Hyde.

Lake Erie Lighthouses

  1. Detroit River Lighthouse [Detroit River] [GLL]
  2. William Livingstone Memorial Light [Detroit River] [GLL]
  3. Grosse Ile North Channel Front Range Light [Detroit River] [GLL]
  4. Windmill Point Lighthouse [Lake St. Claire] [PGEGLL]
  5. Lake St. Clair Lighthouse [Lake St. Clair] [GLL]
  6. St. Clair Flats Rear Channel Range Light [St. Clair River] [GLL]
  7. St. Clair Flats Front Range Light [St. Clair River] [GLL]
  8. Peche Island Range Lighthouse [St. Claire River] [GLL]

Lake Huron Lighthouses

  1. Huron Lightship [GLL]
  2. Fort Gratiot Lighthouse [GLL]
  3. Port Sanilac Lighthouse [GLL]
  4. Harbor Beach Lighthouse [GLL]
  5. Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse [GLL]
  6. Port Austin Reef Light [GLL]
  7. Saginaw Bay Lighthouse [GLLE]
  8. Saginaw River Rear Range Light [GLL]
  9. Gravelly Shoal Light [GLL]
  10. Charity Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  11. Tawas Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  12. Sturgeon Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  13. Alpena Lighthouse [GLL]
  14. Thunder Bay Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  15. Middle Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  16. Presque Isle Harbor Front Range Light [GLL]
  17. Presque Isle Harbor Rear Range Light [GLL]
  18. Presque Isle Harbor (Marquette) Breakwater Light [LGL]
  19. Old Presque Isle Light [GLL]
  20. Presque Isle Lighthouse [GLL]
  21. Forty Mile Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  22. Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  23. Cheboygan River Front Range Light [GLL]
  24. Cheboygan Crib Light [GLL]
  25. Old Cheboygan Light [LGL]
  26. Fourteen Foot Shoal Light [GLL]
  27. Poe Reef Light [GLL]
  28. Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  29. Round Island (St. Mary’s River) Light [LGL]
  30. Round Island (Straits of Mackinac) Lighthouse [GLL]
  31. Round Island Passage Light [GLL]
  32. Martin Reef Light [GLL]
  33. Spectacle Reef Light [GLL]
  34. Detour Point Lighthouse [GLLE]
  35. Detour Reef Light [GLL]
  36. Frying Pan Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  37. Pipe Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  38. Round Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  39. Little Rapids Cut Rear Range Light [GLLE]
  40. Middle Neebish Island Range Lights [GLLE]

Lake Michigan Lighthouses

  1. St. Helena Lighthouse [GLL]
  2. McGulpin Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  3. Waugoshance Lighthouse [GLL]
  4. White Shoal Light [GLL]
  5. Grays Reef Light [GLL]
  6. Ile Aux Galets (Skillagalee) Lighthouse [GLL]
  7. Lansing Shoal Light [GLL]
  8. Squaw Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  9. St. James Harbor Lighthouse [GLL]
  10. Beaver Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  11. Little Traverse (Harbor Point) Lighthouse [GLL]
  12. Petoskey Pierhead Lighthouse [GLL]
  13. Charlevoix South Pierhead Light [GLL]
  14. Old Mission Lighthouse [GLL]
  15. Grand Traverse Lighthouse [GLL]
  16. South Fox Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  17. North Manitou Shoal Light [GLL]
  18. South Manitou Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  19. Manning Memorial Lighthouse [GLL]
  20. Point Betsie Lighthouse [GLL]
  21. Frankfort North Breakwater Light [GLL]
  22. Manistee North Pierhead Light [GLL]
  23. Old Manistee Main Light [GLL]
  24. Big Sable Lighthouse [GLL]
  25. Ludington North Pierhead Light [GLL]
  26. Little Sable Lighthouse [GLL]
  27. White River Lighthouse [GLL]
  28. Muskegon South Pierhead Light [GLL]
  29. Grand Haven South Pier Inner Light [GLL]
  30. Grand Haven South Pier Outer Light [GLL]
  31. Holland Lighthouse [GLL]
  32. South Haven Lighthouse [GLL]
  33. St. Joseph North Pier Light (Inner) [GLL]
  34. St. Joseph North Pier Light (Outer) [GLL]
  35. Menominee North Pier Light [GLL]
  36. Sand Point (Escanaba) Lighthouse [GLL]
  37. Escanaba Light [LGL]
  38. Minneapolis Shoal Light [GLL]
  39. Peninsula Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  40. St. Martin Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  41. Poverty Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  42. Manistique East Breakwater Light [GLL]
  43. Seul Choix Point Lighthouse [GLL]

Lake Superior Lighthouses

  1. Point Iroquois Light [GLL]
  2. Whitefish Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  3. Crisp Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  4. Grand Marais Front Range Light [GLL]
  5. Grand Marais Rear Range Light [GLL]
  6. Au Sable Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  7. Grand Island Old North Light [GLL]
  8. Grand Island East Channel Light [GLL]
  9. Grand Island Harbor Front Range Light [LGL]
  10. Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light [LGL]
  11. Munising Range Front Light [GLL]
  12. Munising Range Rear Light [GLL]
  13. Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light [GLL]
  14. Marquette Breakwater Outer Light [NL]
  15. Marquette Harbor Light [GLL]
  16. Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater Light [GLL]
  17. Granite Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  18. Stannard’s Rock Light [GLL]
  19. Big Bay Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  20. Huron Island Lighthouse [GLL]
  21. Sand Point (Baraga) Lighthouse [GLL]
  22. Indian Country Sports Light [GLLE]
  23. Portage Lake Lower Entrance Light [NL]
  24. Portage River Lighthouse [GLL]
  25. Keweenaw Waterway Lighthouse [GLL]
  26. Mendota (Bete Grise) Lighthouse [GLL]
  27. Gull Rock Light [GLL]
  28. Manitou Lighthouse [GLL]
  29. Copper Harbor Lighthouse [GLL]
  30. Copper Harbor Rear Range Light [GLL]
  31. Eagle Harbor Lighthouse [GLL]
  32. Eagle River Lighthouse [GLL]
  33. Sand Hills Lighthouse [GLL]
  34. Keweenaw Upper Entrance Lighthouse [GLL]
  35. Fourteen Mile Point Lighthouse [GLL]
  36. Ontonagon Lighthouse [GLL]
  37. Ontonagon West Pierhead Light [GLL]
  38. Rock of Ages Light [GLL]
  39. Menagerie (Isle Royale) Lighthouse [GLL]
  40. Rock Harbor Lighthouse [GLL]
  41. Passage Island Lighthouse [GLL]

April 1, 2007

The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of The Upper Great Lakes, by Charles K. Hyde

Filed under: book reviews — karin @ 12:53 pm

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Not a bad book — no maps but the info is good otherwise. I have a beef in that in the chapter on “Lake Erie and Lake Huron Lights,” it’s not clear which lights are on Erie and which are on Huron (turns out, they start out with Lake Erie lights and then move on to Lake Huron lights, but if you don’t know the lights in question it’s not clear when the transition happens) and I’m not at all sure why they lumped them together that way, but anyway. It’s a decent book, but not a “must-have,” imho.

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