Grand Haven South Pierhead Inner Light

South Pierhead Inner Light

South Pierhead Inner Light with entrance light in background
Location	Grand Haven, Michigan
Coordinates	43°03′26.1″N 86°15′13.7″W / 43.057250°N 86.253806°W / 43.057250; -86.253806Coordinates: 43°03′26.1″N 86°15′13.7″W / 43.057250°N 86.253806°W / 43.057250; -86.253806[1]
Year first constructed	1905
Year first lit	1905[2]
Automated	1969[2]
Height	36 feet (11 m)[1]
Original lens	9.8 inches (250 mm)[2]
Range	4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi)[1]
USCG number	7-18975[1]

Grand Haven South Pierhead Inner Light is the inner light of two lighthouses on the south pier of Grand Haven, Michigan where the Grand River enters Lake Michigan. A lighthouse was first lit there in 1839.^[3] The lighthouse was put up for sale in 2009 under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.^[4] The City of Grand Haven now owns the pier, but it is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers.^[5]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grand Haven Lights.

U.S. Coast Guard Archive Photo of Grand Haven Inner Lighthouse

• Interactive map on Michigan lighthouses, Detroit News
• Interactive map of lighthouses in southern Lake Michigan
• Lighthouse Friends (Grand Haven Light)
• Map of Michigan Lighthouse in PDF Format
• Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy, Grand Haven Lighthouse
• National Park Service Inventory of Historic Lighthouses, Maritime Heritage, Grand Haven South Pierhead light.
• Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Grand Haven Pier Light
• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Michigan's Western Lower Peninsula". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 
• Wobser, David, boatnerd.com, Grand Haven South Pier and Pierhead Lights

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