Eagle Harbor Lighthouse - Michigan
Eagle Harbor lighthouse on Lake Superior, Keweenaw County, Michigan. This brick structure, built in 1871, replaced an earlier lighthouse built in the 1850s. The tower, integral with the dwelling, starts with four sides at ground level (forming a 45-degree angle with the front of the house and 135-degree at the side) but changes to octagonal at the level of the house roof; seen in side view, half the tower is painted white (note that one facet of the tower in this front view is white). The light was automated in 1980 but remains active, according to the Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy. The keeper's house is now used as a maritime museum. [Information from the Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy's list of Michigan lighthouses; also see Terry Pepper's: Seeing the Light: Lighthouses of the Western Great Lakes]. The Eagle Harbor Light Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Eagle Harbor, about as far north as one can go in Michigan, is at the northern end of the Keweenaw Peninsula, which extends (southwest to northeast) into Lake Superior near the western end of the Upper Peninsula. As the picture above suggests, we were there on a moderately foggy day. There is also a lighthouse at Nearby Copper Harbor, but it can be accessed only by boat; we didn't have time for that trip on our return from a month-long trip last year, but hope to get back to the area before long.
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Eagle Harbor Lighthouse - Michigan
Eagle Harbor lighthouse on Lake Superior, Keweenaw County, Michigan. This brick structure, built in 1871, replaced an earlier lighthouse built in the 1850s. The tower, integral with the dwelling, starts with four sides at ground level (forming a 45-degree angle with the front of the house and 135-degree at the side) but changes to octagonal at the level of the house roof; seen in side view, half the tower is painted white (note that one facet of the tower in this front view is white). The light was automated in 1980 but remains active, according to the Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy. The keeper's house is now used as a maritime museum. [Information from the Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy's list of Michigan lighthouses; also see Terry Pepper's: Seeing the Light: Lighthouses of the Western Great Lakes]. The Eagle Harbor Light Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Eagle Harbor, about as far north as one can go in Michigan, is at the northern end of the Keweenaw Peninsula, which extends (southwest to northeast) into Lake Superior near the western end of the Upper Peninsula. As the picture above suggests, we were there on a moderately foggy day. There is also a lighthouse at Nearby Copper Harbor, but it can be accessed only by boat; we didn't have time for that trip on our return from a month-long trip last year, but hope to get back to the area before long.
Press "L" for larger image, on black.