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The Key

THE LAKE LIGHT

This lighthouse, one of the earliest on the Great Lakes, was completed in 1808 as a hexagonal tower 52 feet high, topped by a wooden cage with a fixed whale-oil lantern. In 1832 it was raised to 82 feet and later equipped with a revolving light the mysterious disappearance of its first keeper, J.P. Rademuller, in 1815 and the subsequent discovery nearby of part of a human skeleton enhanced its reputation, as a haunted building.

 

One of the officials let me lock the door, I wanted that key!

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Uploaded on September 17, 2014
Taken on September 16, 2014