Baileys Harbor Light

Baileys Harbor Light
Location Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin
Coordinates 45°03′21″N 87°05′49″W / 45.05583°N 87.09694°W / 45.05583; -87.09694Coordinates: 45°03′21″N 87°05′49″W / 45.05583°N 87.09694°W / 45.05583; -87.09694
Deactivated 1869
Construction Stone
Original lens Sixth order Fresnel lens

The Baileys Harbor lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin.

Replaced by the Baileys Harbor Range Lights and the Cana Island Lighthouse in 1869. It is one of a few lighthouses in the country to have retained its bird-cage lantern.

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    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". 
    • Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
    • Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

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