Lighthouse @ Port Clinton, Ohio
This lighthouse was currently restored, sitting beside Lake Erie, is Port Clinton’s second. Constructed in 1896 at the end of the city’s West Pier at the Portage River entrance, the twenty-six foot structure remained active for more than thirty years. The first keeper was Robert Waterfield, who had been the last keeper of the old stone lighthouse. This new light, housed atop a 12’ x 12’ square sided pyramidal wooden structure, consisted of a 180- degree, curved, clear glass lens with horizontal ridges. A single kerosene lantern with a ruby chimney provided a steady red light visible for six miles. The intensity was doubled to 100 candlepower some years later.
Lighthouse @ Port Clinton, Ohio
This lighthouse was currently restored, sitting beside Lake Erie, is Port Clinton’s second. Constructed in 1896 at the end of the city’s West Pier at the Portage River entrance, the twenty-six foot structure remained active for more than thirty years. The first keeper was Robert Waterfield, who had been the last keeper of the old stone lighthouse. This new light, housed atop a 12’ x 12’ square sided pyramidal wooden structure, consisted of a 180- degree, curved, clear glass lens with horizontal ridges. A single kerosene lantern with a ruby chimney provided a steady red light visible for six miles. The intensity was doubled to 100 candlepower some years later.