Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light

Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light
South Pierhead Entrance Light with inner light also shown

Location	Grand Haven, Michigan
Coordinates	43°03′25.0″N 86°15′21.3″W / 43.056944°N 86.255917°W / 43.056944; -86.255917Coordinates: 43°03′25.0″N 86°15′21.3″W / 43.056944°N 86.255917°W / 43.056944; -86.255917^[1]
Year first constructed	1905
Year first lit	1905^[2]
Automated	1969^[2]
Height	36 feet (11 m)^[1]
Original lens	7.5 inches (190 mm)^[2]
Range	17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi)^[1]
ARLHS number	USA-1077
USCG number	7-18965^[1]

Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light is the outer light of two lighthouses on the south pier of Grand Haven, Michigan where the Grand River enters Lake Michigan. A lighthouse was first lit there in 1839.^[3] The lighthouse was put up for sale in 2009 under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.^[4] The City of Grand Haven now owns the pier, but it is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers.^[5]

References

1 2 3 4
- Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
1 2 3 GRAND HAVEN SOUTH PIERHEAD LIGHTS
↑ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
↑ "NHLPA 2009 Program, Notices of Availability". www.nps.gov/maritime. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
↑ "Public safety and lakeshore piers". WZZM 13. Retrieved 30 July 2014.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grand Haven Lights.

U.S. Coast Guard Archive Photo of Grand Haven Front Lighthouse

Interactive map on Michigan lighthouses, Detroit News
Interactive map of lighthouses in southern Lake Michigan
Lighthouse Friends (Grand Haven Light)
Map of Michigan Lighthouse in PDF Format
Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy, Grand Haven Lighthouse
National Park Service Inventory of Historic Lighthouses, Maritime Heritage, Grand Haven South Pierhead light.
Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Grand Haven Pier Light
Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Michigan's Western Lower Peninsula". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
Wobser, David, boatnerd.com, Grand Haven South Pier and Pierhead Lights

Lighthouses in Michigan

Northern Upper Peninsula	Au Sable Big Bay Point Copper Harbor Copper Harbor Front Range Crisp Point Eagle Harbor Eagle Harbor Range Lights Eagle River Fourteen Mile Point Grand Island East Channel Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Grand Island North Grand Marais Range Lights Granite Island Gull Rock Huron Island Isle Royale Manitou Island Marquette Breakwater Outer Marquette Harbor Mendota (Bete Grise) Munising Front Range Munising Rear Range Ontonagon Ontonagon Harbor West Breakwater Portage River (Jacobsville) Passage Island Rock Harbor Rock of Ages Sand Hills Sand Point Light (Baraga) St. Martin Island Stannard Rock Thunder Bay Island Whitefish Point

Southern Upper Peninsula	DeTour Reef Lansing Shoals Manistique East Breakwater Martin Reef Menominee Pier Minneapolis Shoal Naubinway Island Peninsula Point Poverty Island Sand Point Seul Choix Squaw Island St. Martin Island

St. Mary's River	Frying Pan Island Pipe Island Point Iroquois Round Island Light (St. Mary's River) Six Mile Point Range Rear Winter Point Range Front

Portage River/Ship Canal	Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Portage Lake Rouleau Point Range Front and Rear Lights

Straits of Mackinac	Bois Blanc McGulpin Point Old Mackinac Point Round Island Round Island Passage St. Helena Island

Western Lower Peninsula	Beaver Island Harbor Beaver Island Head Big Sable Point Cedar River Charlevoix Charlevoix South Pier Frankfort Frankfort South Range Grand Haven North Pierhead Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Grand Haven South Pierhead Inner Grand Traverse Grays Reef Holland Harbor Ile Aux Galets Little Sable Point Little Traverse Ludington Manistee Pierhead Manning Memorial Mission Point Mission Point (1933) Muskegon Breakwater Muskegon Pier North Manitou Shoal Pentwater North Pierhead Pentwater South Pierhead Point Betsie Portage Lake South Fox Island South Haven South Manitou Island St. Joseph North Pier Inner St. Joseph North Pier Outer South Manitou Island Waugoshance White River White Shoal

Eastern Lower Peninsula	Alpena Caseville Harbor Charity Island Cheboygan Crib Cheboygan River Front Range DeTour Reef Detroit River Fort Gratiot Forty Mile Point Fourteen Foot Shoal Gibraltar Gravelly Shoal Harbor Beach Lake St. Clair Mariners Memorial Middle Island Miller Memorial New Presque Isle Old Presque Isle Peche Island Rear Range Poe Reef Pointe aux Barques Port Austin Port Sanilac Saginaw Bay Saginaw River Rear Range Spectacle Reef St. Clair Flats Front and Rear Range Light Sturgeon Point Tawas Point Thunder Bay Island Tri-Centennial Light of Detroit William Livingstone Memorial Windmill Point

Historical (lost) lights	Au Sable North Pierhead Belle Isle Clinton River Ecorse Ecorse Range Rear Gibraltar Grassy Island Grassy Island North Channel Range Lights Grassy Island South Channel Range Lights Grosse Ile North Channel Range Lights Grosse Ile South Channel Range Lights Harwood Point East Range Front Kalamazoo River Mama Juda Mama Juda Range Front Manistee Main Middle Lake George Monroe Pier New Buffalo North Manitou Island Saginaw Bay Sand Beach North Entrance East Squaw Point St. Mary's River Lower Range Front Vidal Shoals Channel Range Front and Rear Lights Windmill Point Range Front and Rear Lights

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