Little Sable Point Lighthouse
Mears, MI. Lake Michigan

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LITTLE POINT SABLE LIGHT

State: MICHIGAN
Location: EAST SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN
Nearest City: MEARS
County: OCEANA
U.S.C.G. District: 9

Year Station Established: 1874

Existing Historic Tower:

  • Year Light First Lit: 1874
  • Is the Light Operational? YES
  • Date Deactivated: N/A
  • Automated: 1955
  • Foundation Materials: WOOD PILINGS
  • Construction Materials: BRICK
  • Markings/Patterns: RED BRICK/ORIG. WHITE
  • Shape: CONICAL
  • Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
  • Tower Height: 107
  • Original Optic: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL
  • Year Original Lens Installed: 1874
  • Present Optic: THIRD ORDER
  • Year Present Lens Installed:
  • Height of Focal Plane: 108
  • Fresnel Lens Disposition:
  • Has tower been moved? NO

Previous Tower(s): N/A

Modern Tower? NO

Existing Sound Signal Building? NO

Existing Keepers Quarters? NO, DESTROYED

  • Year Constructed: 1874
  • Number of Stories: 3
  • Architectural Style:
  • Construction Materials: BRICK

Other Structures: NO LONGER STANDING

Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION IN STATE PARK

Owner/Manager: U.S COAST GUARD (TOWER)/SILVER LAKE STATE PARK (GROUNDS)

Open to the Public? YES (Goto Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)

Web Site:

National Register Status: LISTED Reference #84001827
Name of Listing: LITTLE SABLE POINT LIGHT STATION (U.S. COAST GUARD/GREAT LAKES TR)                                                        On State List/Inventory? NO; Year Listed:

Miscellaneous:

IMPORTANT ROLE IN GROWTH OF SHIPPING ON LAKE MICHIGAN

 Little Sable Lighthouse, a white brick tower, 107 feet in height, connected to the keeper’s dwelling, and surrounded by a picturesque group of trees, stands on a point about 10 miles south of Pentwater. The lighthouse was built in 1874, and the light now shown from the tower is fixed and flashing white, the flashes being of 40,000 candlepower. Several miles to the northward is Big Sable Lighthouse, on the point of that name, distinguished at night from Little Sable by having a fixed white light, and by day by the color of the tower, banded in black and white. Big Sable Lighthouse is the same height as the tower at Little Sable, but was erected in 1867.
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Revised: 08/23/03.