Sand Island Lighthouse (Wisconsin)
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Location: | Sand Island, Wisconsin |
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Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS) |
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Foundation: | Stone |
Construction: | Sandstone |
Year first lit: | 1881 |
Deactivated: | 1933-1980 |
Automated: | 1921 |
Tower shape: | Octagonal |
Height: | 40 feet (12 m) |
Original lens: | Fourth order Fresnel lens |
Range: | 7 statute miles (11 km) |
Characteristic: | White, flashing, 6 s |
The Sand Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the northern tip of Sand Island, one of the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield.
Currently owned by the National Park Service and part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, part of reference number 77000145. Listed in the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, WI-313.
Attached to a Norman gothic keepers quarters.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- NPS - Sand Island Light Station
- Lighthouse friends article
- NPS - Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
- Volume 7, USCG Lightlist (PDF)
- Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey Survey number HABS WI-313