Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light
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| Location | Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates | 44°47′31″N 87°18′34″W / 44.79194°N 87.30944°WCoordinates: 44°47′31″N 87°18′34″W / 44.79194°N 87.30944°W |
| Year first lit | 1903 |
| Foundation | Concrete |
| Construction | Cast Iron |
| Tower shape | Cylindrical on Square Fog signal house |
| Height | 39 feet (12 m) |
| Original lens | Sixth order Fresnel lens |
| Current lens | 300 mm Tideland Signal acrylic lens[1] |
| Range | 9 statute miles (14 km) |
| Characteristic | Red, flashing 2.5 s |
The Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light is a lighthouse located near Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin.
Painted red, the light is situated on the north pier of the southern entrance to the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal.
There are two lighthouses at this location, the other being the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse.
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- ^ 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.
[edit] External links
- Aerial photos of Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light at Marinas.com.
- Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum.
- Pepper, Terry, Seeing the light, Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light.
- Lighthouse friends article
- NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
- Satelite view at Google maps.
- "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.
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