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Range Report from the Road (Updated w/more pics)
We have finally headed North and ultimately West for this trip...we have been on the road since the 17th of May. We're laying up for a few days in St. Ignace Mi with the in-laws. Thought I'd post a few pics from the places we've been. Kelli and I have been to most of the Michigan lighthouses multiple times but we never get tired of visiting them
This is the McGulpin Point Light (built in 1869) - she is on the South Side of the Straits of Mackinaw (the route between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan). Last time we drove by, she had been sold to a private owner and was a farm house. in the years we've been gone. the Great Lakes Light House Assn acquired her and returned her to operation. Her light is visible for 17 miles from the water...
Here's a view up the tower
This is the Whitefish Point Light on Lake Superior at the mouth of Whitefish Bay. Although there has been a lighthouse on the point since 1848, the current structure was built in 1861. Her light is visible for 26 miles. The brick building in front of the light is the fog signal. The is where the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Arthur M. Anderson were making for on November 10,1975 when the Fitzgerald was lost with all hands. She lays in 530 feet of water, broken in two, about 17 miles offshore.
This is the McGulpin Point Light (built in 1869) - she is on the South Side of the Straits of Mackinaw (the route between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan). Last time we drove by, she had been sold to a private owner and was a farm house. in the years we've been gone. the Great Lakes Light House Assn acquired her and returned her to operation. Her light is visible for 17 miles from the water...
Here's a view up the tower
This is the Whitefish Point Light on Lake Superior at the mouth of Whitefish Bay. Although there has been a lighthouse on the point since 1848, the current structure was built in 1861. Her light is visible for 26 miles. The brick building in front of the light is the fog signal. The is where the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Arthur M. Anderson were making for on November 10,1975 when the Fitzgerald was lost with all hands. She lays in 530 feet of water, broken in two, about 17 miles offshore.
Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
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Old Mackinaw Point 1892
St. Helena Island Light, 1873
White Shoal 1910...White Shoal is a "crib light" she sets on a concrete pile 22 feet above the surface of the water, the pile sets on a "crib" made of 12" X 12" Douglas Fir.
The crib is 72 ft X 72 ft x 72 ft square and was ballasted with 4,000 tons of stone to sink it to the bottom.. Probably one of the most picturesque lights on the Great Lakes. Pre-Automation, she was manned by a 4 man cew. Her light was a 2nd Order Fresnel Lens (about 9 ft across) that was visible for 26 miles
The double doors you seen in the base of the light gave access to the boathouse...the boat was lifted up by the cranes and placed on a railed trolley to be taken inside. (Must have been some work in high seas)
These sheathing plates are 5/8" steel...just goes to show what a combination of wind and water will do....
Grays Reef Light, 1936. names after the unfortunate Captain Gray...who was the first one to run aground on this reef. Another crib light. It had a reputation for being the "party light house of the Great Lakes" Seems the crew would take their boat into Cross Village to pick up a load of booze and women of ill repute....USCG got wind of it and replaced the crew...
Grays Reef show a red light
and the business end