Sherwood Point Light

Sherwood Point Light

Location	Idlewild, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°53′36″N 87°26′00″W
Year first lit	1883
Automated	1983
Foundation	Concrete
Construction	Brick
Tower shape	Square
Height	37 feet (11 m)
Original lens	Fifth order Fresnel lens
Range	15 statute miles (24 km)
Characteristic	White, Isophase 6 s
ARLHS number	USA-754
USCG number	7-22000

The Sherwood Point lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Idlewild in Door County, Wisconsin.

Situated on the west side of the north entrance to Sturgeon Bay, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, as the Sherwood Point Light Station, reference #84003663.

Specialized 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". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm. 
• Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0923568476; ISBN 978-0923568474.
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

• Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum.
• Pepper, Terry, Seeing the light, Sherwood Point Light Station.
• Lighthouse friends article
• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHWI.asp. 
• (PDF) Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes. Light List. United States Coast Guard. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList%20V7.pdf.