Asylum Light

Asylum Light
Asylum Lighthouse

Coordinates	44°03′44.5″N 88°30′52.7″W / 44.062361°N 88.514639°W / 44.062361; -88.514639Coordinates: 44°03′44.5″N 88°30′52.7″W / 44.062361°N 88.514639°W / 44.062361; -88.514639

The Asylum Light is located just north of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The lighthouse is located on a small island just a few feet away from the mainland in Asylum Bay on Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin.

This lighthouse marks the separation between North and South Asylum Bays. Access can be had by traveling a small footbidge across the channel.^[1]

Notes

↑ Asylum Point Lighthouse, Wisconsin at Lighthousefriends.com

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".
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.

Lighthouses of Wisconsin

See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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