St. Martin Island Light

St. Martin Island Light
St. Martin Island Light USCG Archive

Location	St. Martin Island Lake Michigan
Coordinates	45°30′10″N 86°45′27″W / 45.50278°N 86.75750°W / 45.50278; -86.75750Coordinates: 45°30′10″N 86°45′27″W / 45.50278°N 86.75750°W / 45.50278; -86.75750
Year first constructed	1905
Year first lit	1905
Foundation	Granite^[1]
Construction	Steel exoskeleton^[1]
Markings / pattern	white with black lantern^[1]
Height	75 ft (23 m)^[2]
Focal height	81 feet (25 m)^[3]
Original lens	occulting 4th Order Fresnel illuminated by a 24,000 candlepower incandescent oil vapor lamp. Rotating red and white flash panels.^[4]
Current lens	7.5-inch (190 mm) Tideland Signal acrylic lens^[5]
Range	18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)^[6]
Characteristic	Al W R 10s: W fl 5s ec.; R fl 5s ec. Light visible from 135° to 355°, dark sector covering island.^[6]
ARLHS number	USA-802^[7]^[8]
USCG number	7-21450
St. Martin Island Light Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Michigan State Historic Site
Nearest city	Fairport, Michigan
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
MPS	U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
NRHP Reference #	84001387^[9]
Added to NRHP	July 19, 1984

St. Martin Island Light is a unique exoskeleton lighthouse that marks one of four passages between Lake Michigan and the bay of Green Bay.^[10] Constructed in 1905, this light tower is the only example in the United States of a pure exoskeletal tower on the Great Lakes. Similar designs do exist in Canada, however.^[11] Painted white, the hexagonal tower is made of iron plates which are supported by six exterior steel posts that have latticed buttresses.^[4]^[12]

The cream city brick lightkeeper's house was modeled after that used for the Plum Island Range Lights.^[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1984, Reference #84001387 as St. Martin Light Station (U.S. Coast Guard/ Great Lakes TR). It is not on the state list/inventory.^[13] A steam fog signal was also installed.^[14] which was thereafter replaced by a diaphone.^[4]

The lighthouse keeper's dwelling has been abandoned and "is in poor condition."^[12]

The light station is closed to the public. It is managed by in partnership with the Little Traverse Bay Band of the Odawa Indian Nation.^[11]^[15]

References

1 2 3 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
↑ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Tower Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com.
↑ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Focal Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com.
1 2 3 4 Pepper, Terry, Seeing the Light, St. Martin Island Lighthouse.
↑ Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy, St. Martin Island Light.
1 2 Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
↑ "Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, St. Martin Island (Lake Michigan) Light ARLHS USA-802".
↑ "Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, World List of Lights.".
↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Wobser, David, St. Martin Island Light, boatnerd.com.
1 2 Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1 2 Lighthouse Depot, St. Martin Island Light.
↑ National Park Service Maritime History Project, Michigan Lighthouses, Inventory of Historic Light Stations, St. Martin Island Light
↑ Saint Martin Island Light Station, Michigan Historic Sites Online,
↑ Little Traverse Bay Band of the Odawa Indian Nation.

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Lighthouses in Michigan

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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

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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

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