Apostle Islands Lighthouses

Apostle Islands Lighthouses
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
The original Michigan Island light, one of the six lighthouses listed
Nearest city:	Bayfield, Wisconsin
Built:	1857
Architect:	U.S. Lighthouse Service
Governing body:	Bureau of Land Management
NRHP Reference#:	77000145
Added to NRHP:	March 8, 1977

The Apostle Islands Lighthouses are a group of six lighthouses, located in the Apostle Islands, Wisconsin and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as reference number 77000145.

The following lighthouses are listed under this reference number:

• Michigan Island Lighthouse (Two lighthouses located at this site)
• Raspberry Island Lighthouse
• Outer Island Lighthouse
• Sand Island Light
• Devils Island Lighthouse

Other lighthouses are in the area, but are not included in the Apostle Islands Lighthouses listing:

• La Pointe Lighthouse and Chequamegon Point Lighthouse (listed together as the La Pointe Light Station, #83003366)
• Ashland Harbor Breakwater Lighthouse - In the vicinity, but not technically in the Apostle Islands.
• Gull Island Light, Gull Island

Further 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". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm. 
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

• NPS - Lighthouses of the Apostle Islands
• Ashland County Historic Places
• NPS - Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/wi.htm. 
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHWI.asp.