Eagle Bluff Light

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Eagle Bluff Light
Location:	Ephraim, Wisconsin
Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS)	45°10′06″N, 87°14′12″W
Year first lit:	1868
Automated:	1926
Foundation:	Concrete
Construction:	Cream City brick
Tower shape:	Square
Height:	43 feet (13 m)
Original lens:	Third and 1/2 order Fresnel lens
Range:	7 statute miles (11 km)
Characteristic:	White, Flashing every 6 sec

The Eagle Bluff lighthouse, also known as Eagle lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. Construction was authorized in 1866, but the lighthouse was not actually It built until 1868 at a cost of $12,000. It was automated in 1926. The former lighthouse keeper's home has been a museum since 1963.

The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 as reference #70000032.

[edit] External links

• Seeing the Light
• Lighthouse friends article
• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
• Volume 7, USCG Lightlist (PDF)

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