Battered by wind, waves ice, and snow on Lake Michigan
Shipwrecks litter the lanes traveled by schooners and steamships during the 1800s along the Michigan shoreline of Lake Michigan. Thanks to the light and foghorn at Point Betsie, though, many disasters were averted by warning wayward navigators and watching for vessels in distress that the Frankfort station of the U.S. Coast Guard can relieve.
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Battered by wind, waves ice, and snow on Lake Michigan
Shipwrecks litter the lanes traveled by schooners and steamships during the 1800s along the Michigan shoreline of Lake Michigan. Thanks to the light and foghorn at Point Betsie, though, many disasters were averted by warning wayward navigators and watching for vessels in distress that the Frankfort station of the U.S. Coast Guard can relieve.
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