Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light

Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light

Location	Ashland, Wisconsin
Coordinates
Year first lit	1915
Foundation	Concrete pier
Construction	Reinforced concrete / steel
Tower shape	Cylindrical watch room on octagonal pyramid tower^[1]
Markings / pattern	white with red cap on lantern
Height	Tower - 58 feet (18 m)^[2]
Focal height	Focal plane - 65 feet (20 m)^[3]
Original lens	Fourth order Fresnel lens
Current lens	250 mm acrylic plastic lens solar powered^[1]
Range	9 statute miles (14 km)
Characteristic	White, Flashing, 6 sec
ARLHS number	USA-019^[4]^[5]
USCG number	7-15310

The Ashland Harbor Breakwater lighthouse, also known as Ashland Breakwater Lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ashland in Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA.^[6] It sits at the end of a long and detached breakwater, which creates an artificial harbor.^[7]

Lighthouse keeper's quarters and a boathouse were constructed in 1916 near the light. Quarters also are located on 2nd and 3rd story of the lighthouse.

1 Gallery
2 References
3 Specialized Additional reading
4 External links

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References

^ ^a ^b National Park Service, Maritime History Project, Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin - Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light.
^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Tower Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com. http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/lists/towers.htm.
^ Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm.
^ Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, Ashland Harbor Breakwater (Lake Superior) Light ARLHS USA-019.
^ Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, World List of Lights (WLOL).
^ Ashland Wisconsin website.
^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/wi.htm.

Specialized Additional reading

Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm.
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

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Lighthouses of Wisconsin

See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light

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