Eagle Bluff Light
Appearance
Location | Ephraim, Wisconsin |
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Coordinates | 45°10′06″N 87°14′12″W / 45.1683°N 87.2367°W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1868 |
Foundation | Concrete |
Construction | Cream City brick |
Automated | 1926 |
Height | 43 feet (13 m) |
Shape | Square[1] |
Heritage | National Register of Historic Places listed place |
Light | |
First lit | 1868 |
Focal height | 23 m (75 ft) |
Lens | Third and 1/2 order Fresnel lens |
Range | 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi)[1] |
Characteristic | White, Flashing every 6 sec[1] |
The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. Construction was authorized in 1866, but the lighthouse was not actually built until 1868 at a cost of $12,000. It was automated in 1926. The former lighthouse keeper's home has been a museum since 1963.
The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 as reference #70000032.
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".
- Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.
References
- ^ a b c d Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
External links
- Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Museum - official website
- Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum.
- Seeing the Light
- Lighthouse friends article
- 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.
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
Categories:
- Lighthouses completed in 1868
- Houses completed in 1868
- Towers completed in 1868
- Lighthouses in Door County, Wisconsin
- Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
- Museums in Door County, Wisconsin
- Lighthouse museums in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Registered Historic Place stubs
- United States lighthouse stubs