Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
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| Rear Range Light |
| Location |
Christmas, Michigan |
| Year first lit |
1914[1] |
| Automated |
1914[2] |
| Deactivated |
1969 |
| Foundation |
concrete pier |
| Construction |
steel |
| Tower shape |
Frustum of a cone |
| Markings / pattern |
Black and white Daymark tower/black lantern |
| Height |
Tower - 64 feet (20 m)[3] |
| Focal height |
Focal plane - 70 feet (21 m)[4] |
| Original lens |
Sixth-order Fresnel lens |
| Range |
15 miles[5] |
| ARLHS number |
USA-1080[6][7] |
| USCG number |
7-14597 |
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Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
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| Nearest city: |
Christmas, Michigan |
| Area: |
less than one acre |
| Architect: |
US Coast Guard |
| Architectural style: |
Conical Steel Tower |
| Governing body: |
FOREST SERVICE |
| NRHP Reference#: |
90000906[8] |
| Added to NRHP: |
June 26, 1990 |
The Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light is a lighthouse located off M-28 near Christmas, Michigan. It is also known as the Bay Furnace Rear Range Light. The corresponding front range light was replaced in 1968; the rear range light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[8] It is no longer an active aid to navigation.
The grounds only are publicly accessible, but a hike is required.[9]
History
The Grand Island Range Lights were lit first in 1868.[1] The original front range light was a wooden pyramid that held a sixth-order Fresnel lens.[1] The original rear range light was a sixth-order Fresnel lens in a wooden tower atop a frame keeper's house,[5] 500 feet (150 m) to the rear of the front range light.[1]
By 1914, these original frame structures were severely rotted, and both were replaced[1] as part of a broader effort of replacing nearly all harbor lights with steel-framed structures.[2] The new front range light was a 23-foot-tall (7.0 m) iron mast.[1] A new automated[2] rear range light was installed 750 feet (230 m) to the rear of the front range light.[1] The new rear range light was a 64-foot (20 m) tower, the upper half (painted white)[10] of which was part of a tower originally located at the Vidal Shoals.[1] near Sault Ste. Marie.[10][11] In 1939, the sixth-order Fresnel lenses were replaced with 350 millimeter glass lenses, which still used acetylene gas.[5] In 1968, the front range light was replaced with a "D9" style tubular steel structure;[5] in 1969 the lights were deactivated.[2]
Rear range light description
The 1914 Rear Range Light is a steel conical tower, 64 feet (20 m) high, with a round lantern.[2] The light of one of the tallest, if not the tallest, of the riveted steel plate light towers installed around the Great Lakes.[2][12] The tower sits on a concrete foundation; a metal door in the base of the tower and interior spiral stair provides access to the light.The tower painted black on the bottom and white on the top, with a black lantern room. The existing light was built in 1914 replacing the original 1868 station.[2][13]
Gallery
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHMI.asp. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light from the state of Michigan, retrieved 1/1/10
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Tower Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com. http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/lists/towers.htm.
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Focal Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com. http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/lists/focalheight.htm.
- ^ a b c d Grand Island Range Lights from "Seeing the Light," Terry Pepper, retrieved 1/1/10
- ^ Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, Grand Island Harbor Rear Range (Lake Superior) Light ARLHS USA-1080.
- ^ Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, World List of Lights (WLOL).
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Publicly accessible lights in Michigan, National Park System, Maritime Heritage Project.
- ^ a b GRAND ISLAND HARBOR RANGE LIGHTS from the US Forest Service
- ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/miup.htm.
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Tower Designs". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com. http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/lists/towertype.htm.
- ^ National Park Service , Maritime History Project, Inventory of Historic LIghts, Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light.
External links
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| Northern upper peninsula |
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| Southern upper peninsula |
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| St. Mary's River |
Frying Pan Island Light • Pipe Island Light • Point Iroquois Light • Round Island Light (St. Mary's River) • Six Mile Point Range Rear Light |
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| Portage River/Ship Canal |
Keweenaw Waterway (Portage Lake) Lower Entrance • Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light • Rouleau Point Range Front and Rear Lights
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| Straits of Mackinac |
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| Western lower peninsula |
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| Eastern lower peninsula |
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| Historical (lost) lights |
Au Sable North Pierhead • Clinton River Light • Ecorse Light • Ecorse Range Rear • Gibraltar Light • Grassy Island Lighthouse • Grassy Island North Channel Range • Grassy Island South Channel Range • Grosse Isle South Channel Range • Harwood Point East Range Front (St. Mary's River) • Mama Juda Light • Mama Juda Range Front • Middle Lake George • Monroe Pier • New Buffalo • North Manitou Island • Rouleau Point Range Front and Rear • Saginaw Bay • Sand Beach North Entrance East • Squaw Point • St. Mary's River Lower Range Front • Turtle Island Light • Vidal Shoals Channel Range Front and Rear • Windmill Point Range Front and Rear • Winter Point Range Front |
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