Eagle Bluff Light
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Location | Ephraim, Wisconsin |
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Coordinates | 45°10′07.3″N 87°14′11.98″W / 45.168694°N 87.2366611°WCoordinates: 45°10′07.3″N 87°14′11.98″W / 45.168694°N 87.2366611°W[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 |
Heritage |
place listed on the National Register of Historic Places ![]() |
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.
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.
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Eagle Bluff Light
References
- 1 2 3 4 Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
External links
USCG archive photo
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Eagle Bluff Lighthouse
- Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Museum - official website
- 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.
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