Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light

Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light
Location Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Coordinates
Year first lit 1903
Foundation Concrete
Construction Cast Iron
Tower shape Cylindrical on Square Fog signal house
Height 39 feet (12 m)
Original lens Sixth order Fresnel lens
Current lens 300 mm Tideland Signal acrylic lens[1]
Range 9 statute miles (14 km)
Characteristic Red, flashing 2.5 s

The Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light is a lighthouse located near Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin.

Painted red, the light is situated on the north pier of the southern entrance to the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal.

There are two lighthouses at this location, the other being the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse.

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.

References

  1. ^ 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. 

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