Chambers Island Light
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| Location | Chambers Island, Wisconsin |
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| Foundation | Concrete |
| Construction | Brick |
| Automated | 1961 |
| Height | 67 feet (20 m) |
| Shape | Octagonal without lantern |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1868 |
| Deactivated | 1961 |
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Chambers Island Lighthouse | |
| Area | 40 acres (16 ha) |
| Built | 1868 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75000063[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 19, 1975 |
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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).[2][3] 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.
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USCG archive photo -
USCG archive – no lantern
Notes
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- ^ Chambers Island Lighthouse in Lighthouse Resources: Historic Lighthouses & Light Stations, United States Coast Guard, July 22, 2019
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- 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) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
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- Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).; Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
External links
[edit | edit source]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chambers Island Lighthouse.
- Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum
- Chambers Island Light entry in Seeing the Light (Archived May 9, 2021)
- Lighthouse friends article
- NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin (Archived March 14, 2012)
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- History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - lists replacement skeletal light
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