Chambers Island Light
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| Location | Chambers Island, Wisconsin |
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| Year first lit | 1868 |
| Automated | 1961 |
| Deactivated | 1961 |
| Foundation | Concrete |
| Construction | Brick |
| Tower shape | Octagonal without lantern |
| Height | 67 feet (20 m) |
The Chambers Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin. It was replaced in 1961 by a skeletal tower, visible for 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi).[1] The new light is identified by the USCG as 7-21895.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as reference #75000063.
USCG archive photo
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USCG archive – no lantern
Notes
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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.
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- 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.
External links
- Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum
- Seeing the Light
- Lighthouse friends article
- NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
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- History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - lists replacement skeletal light
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See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin
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