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    The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light, also known as the Portage Entry Light, is a lighthouse located at the south end of breakwater at mouth of...
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    The Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light is a lighthouse located at the north end of the Portage River in McLain State Park in Hancock Township, Michigan...
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    a fire pit expanse, archery range, and a log cabin. The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light is located within the White City Park. Completed in the...
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    National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light, p. 13 United States Census Bureau (August 22, 2012). "2010...
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  • Pierhead) Light". National Park Service. Retrieved October 22, 2008. "Inventory of Historic Lighthouses--Michigan-- Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light". National...
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  • Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair and connecting waterways. The first lighthouse in the state, Fort Gratiot Light, was erected in 1825. It is still active. The...
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    Eagle Harbor Light is an operational lighthouse at Eagle Harbor, in Keweenaw County in the state of Michigan. It sits on the rocky entrance to Eagle Harbor...
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    Register of Historic Places in 1971. The Stannard Rock Reef is located off Keweenaw Peninsula about 24 miles (39 km) south of Manitou Island and 44 miles (71 km)...
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    The Eagle River Light is a decommissioned lighthouse at the mouth of the Eagle River in the community of Eagle River on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U...
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    and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Isle Royale, in Eagle Harbor Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan (see map below). It is an active aid to navigation. The...
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  • Manitou Island (Lake Superior) (category Protected areas of Keweenaw County, Michigan)
    the northeastern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of Grant Township, in Keweenaw County. Located approximately...
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    1994. From 1857 to 1908, Eagle River Light was the only lighthouse between the Keweenaw Waterway and Eagle Harbor Light. With the end of the copper boom in...
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    Huron Bay, Keweenaw Bay, or Portage Entry—and is often shrouded in fog. Beginning mid-nineteenth century, with the copper boom in the Keweenaw Peninsula...
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    The Gull Rock Light Station is an active lighthouse located on Gull Rock, just west of Manitou Island, off the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in...
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    Although the St. Helena Island Light marked the western entry into the Straits, and Poverty Island Light lighted the entrance to the Bays de Noc, there were...
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  • Thumbnail for St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights
    Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in St. Joseph, Michigan, US, at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan. The station was built in 1832...
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    Island Light (St. Mary's River) Six Mile Point Range Rear Winter Point Range Front Portage River/Ship Canal Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Keweenaw Waterway...
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    Eastern Lower Peninsula". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List....
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  • Thumbnail for Copper Harbor Light
    The Copper Harbor Light is a lighthouse located in the harbor of Copper Harbor, Michigan USA on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan inside Fort Wilkins...
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    1845, and then encompassed the present-day Houghton County as well as Keweenaw County and Ontonagon County. The history of Houghton County in inextricably...
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    and Detroit River (Bar Point Shoal) (also known as the Detroit River Entrance Light) (1885). "The long and expensive process of building lights" in remote...
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    river. When they were finished, the light was no longer well-positioned to allow boats navigation of the entrance. Funding requests, negotiations for...
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    North Pier. The light was electrified in 1919. In the 1920s, construction began on a pair of concrete breakwaters at the harbor entrance. Construction was...
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  • Thumbnail for Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light
    Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light is the outer light of two lighthouses on the south pier of Grand Haven, Michigan where the Grand River enters...
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  • Thumbnail for Manitou Island Light Station
    The Manitou Island Light Station is a lighthouse located on Manitou Island, off the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. It was listed...
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    The Ludington Light is a 57-foot (17 m) tall steel-plated lighthouse in Ludington, Michigan, which lies along the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, at...
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  • Thumbnail for DeTour Reef Light
    The DeTour Reef Light is a non-profit-operated lighthouse marking the southern entrance of the DeTour Passage between the eastern end of Michigan's Upper...
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  • Thumbnail for Mendota (Bete Grise) Light
    The Mendota Light, also known as the Bete Grise light, was built on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan to facilitate travel between Lake Superior and Lac...
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    The Little Sable Point Light is a lighthouse located south of Pentwater in the lower peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the southwest corner...
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  • Thumbnail for William Livingstone Memorial Light
    The William Livingstone Memorial Light is an Art Deco lighthouse located at the northeast end of Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, facing Lake St. Clair...
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