Eagle Bluff Light

Eagle Bluff Light
Location Ephraim, Wisconsin
Coordinates 45°10′07.3″N 87°14′11.98″W / 45.168694°N 87.2366611°W / 45.168694; -87.2366611Coordinates: 45°10′07.3″N 87°14′11.98″W / 45.168694°N 87.2366611°W / 45.168694; -87.2366611[1]
Year first constructed 1868
Year first lit 1868
Automated 1926
Foundation Concrete
Construction Cream City brick
Tower shape Square[1]
Height 43 feet (13 m)
Original lens Third and 1/2 order Fresnel lens
Range 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi)[1]
Characteristic White, Flashing every 6 sec[1]
ARLHS number USA-252
USCG number 7-21825

The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. Construction was authorized in 1866, but the lighthouse was not actually built until 1868 at a cost of $12,000. It was automated in 1926. The former lighthouse keeper's home has been a museum since 1963.

The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 as reference #70000032.

Additional reading

  • Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
  • Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
  • Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". 
  • Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
  • Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.
Eagle Bluff Light

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.

External links

USCG archive photo
Eagle Bluff Lighthouse


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