Chambers Island Light

Chambers Island Light
Location Chambers Island, Wisconsin
Coordinates 45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W / 45.20250°N 87.36472°W / 45.20250; -87.36472Coordinates: 45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W / 45.20250°N 87.36472°W / 45.20250; -87.36472
Year first lit 1868
Automated 1961
Deactivated 1961
Foundation Concrete
Construction Brick
Tower shape Octagonal without lantern
Height 67 feet (20 m)

The Chambers Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin. It was replaced in 1961 by a skeletal tower, visible for 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi).[1] The new light is identified by the USCG as 7-21895.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as reference #75000063.

USCG archive photo
USCG archive no lantern

Notes

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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