Sherwood Point Light

Sherwood Point Light
Location Idlewild, Wisconsin
Coordinates
Year first lit 1883
Automated 1983
Foundation Concrete
Construction Brick
Tower shape Square
Height 37 feet (11 m)
Original lens Fifth order Fresnel lens
Range 15 statute miles (24 km)
Characteristic White, Isophase 6 s
ARLHS number USA-754
USCG number 7-22000

The Sherwood Point lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Idlewild in Door County, Wisconsin.

Situated on the west side of the north entrance to Sturgeon Bay, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, as the Sherwood Point Light Station, reference #84003663.

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.

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