Sand Island Lighthouse (Wisconsin)

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Sand Island Lighthouse (Wisconsin)

Location: Sand Island, Wisconsin
Coordinates
WGS-84 (GPS)
47°00′12″N, 90°56′12″W
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.

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