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SAND POINT
(ESCANABA) LIGHT
State: MICHIGAN
Location: WEST SHORE LITTLE BAY DE NOC/LAKE MICHIGAN
Nearest City: ESCANABA
County: DELTA
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1867
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1867
- Is the Light Operational? NO
- Date Deactivated: 1939
- Automated:
- Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
- Construction Materials: BRICK
- Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
- Shape: SQUARE W/OCTAGONAL LANTERN
- Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
- Tower Height: 41
- Original Optic: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1868
- Present Optic: FOURTH ORDER
- Year Present Lens Installed: 1989
- Height of Focal Plane: 44
- Fresnel Lens Disposition:
- Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- Year Constructed: 1867
- Number of Stories: 1.5
- Architectural Style: ATTACHED
- Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures:
Current Use: MUSEUM
Owner/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD LEASE TO DELTA COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Web Site:
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #97001474
Name of Listing: SAND POINY LIGHTHOUSE
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1989
Miscellaneous: REPLACED BY OFFSHORE CRIB 1939; LANTERN REMOVED 1939;
USED FOR COAST GUARD HOUSING UNTIL 1985; LANTERN REPLACED AND LENS
RELIT IN 1989 |
