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North Manitou Island Light

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Location
  
Lake Michigan

First lit
  
1899

Year first lit
  
1899

Automated
  
1899

North Manitou Island Light

Similar
  
Grand Marais Harbor of, Grand Haven South Pie, St Martin Island Light, Bois Blanc Light, Muskegon Breakwater Light

North Manitou Island Light was a Lake Michigan lighthouse and fog signal complex at Dimmick's Point on North Manitou Island in Leelanau County within the U.S. state of Michigan. In operation from 1899 until 1935, the lighthouse helped to mark the Manitou Passage. The lighthouse complex was superseded by the North Manitou Shoal Light in 1935 and was privatized in 1938. While fragments of the light station complex remain as of 2013, the lighthouse tower succumbed to the effects of erosion on its exposed site in 1942. The lightkeeper's dwelling house followed it into oblivion in the early 1970s.

Specifications

The now-vanished lighthouse complex boasted a fourth-order Fresnel lens and an oil-fired foghorn.

References

North Manitou Island Light Wikipedia