Chambers Island Light

Chambers Island Light

Location	Chambers Island, Wisconsin
Coordinates
Year first lit	1868
Automated	1961
Deactivated	1961
Foundation	Concrete
Construction	Brick
Tower shape	Octagonal without lantern
Height	67 feet (20 m)

The Chambers Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as reference #75000063. It was replaced in 1961 by a skeletal tower, visible for 10 statute miles (16 km).

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.
Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0923568476; ISBN 978-0923568474.
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum.
Seeing the Light
Lighthouse friends article
NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
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.
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHWI.asp.
(PDF) Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes. Light List. United States Coast Guard. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList%20V7.pdf.
History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - Lists replacement skeletal light

Lighthouses of Wisconsin

See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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