Chambers Island Light

Chambers Island Light
Location Chambers Island, Wisconsin
Coordinates 45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W / 45.20250°N 87.36472°W / 45.20250; -87.36472Coordinates: 45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W / 45.20250°N 87.36472°W / 45.20250; -87.36472
Year first lit 1868
Automated 1961
Deactivated 1961
Foundation Concrete
Construction Brick
Tower shape Octagonal without lantern
Height 67 feet (20 m)
Heritage place listed on the National Register of Historic Places Edit this on Wikidata

The Chambers Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin. It was replaced in 1961 by a skeletal tower, visible for 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi).[1] The new light is identified by the USCG as 7-21895.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as reference #75000063.

USCG archive photo
USCG archive – no lantern

Notes

  1. ↑ Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014. p. 214.

Further 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". Archived from the original on 2008-01-30.
  • 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.
  • Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum
  • Seeing the Light
  • Lighthouse friends article
  • NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
  • Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
  • Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
  • History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - lists replacement skeletal light


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