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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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    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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    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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    Keweenaw County (/ˈkiːwənɔː/, KEE-wə-naw) is a county in the western Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the county's...
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    include sunsets over Lake Superior and the art deco–style Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light. The park is named after Houghton County Commissioner Frederick...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Isle Royale Light
    The Isle Royale Light, or Menagerie Island Light, is a lighthouse within Isle Royale National Park, in Keweenaw County, northern Michigan, United States...
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    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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    Light and Museum. "Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Point Iroquois Light". Lighthouse Central, Point Iroquos Lighthouse, The Ultimate Guide to Upper Michigan...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Ontonagon Harbor Piers Historic District
    Ontonagon harbor is the only refuge for small craft between the Keweenaw Waterway upper entrance and Black River Harbor. "National Register Information System"...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Squaw Island Light
    Roach, Jerry, Lighthouse Central, Photos of the Squaw Island Light, The Ultimate Guide to Upper Michigan Lighthouses (Publisher: Bugs Publishing LLC - 2007)...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Holland Harbor Light
    The Holland Harbor Light, known as Big Red, is located in Park Township, Michigan at the entrance of a channel connecting Lake Michigan with Lake Macatawa...
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    Presque Isle Light. Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light - Old Presque Isle Light. Hermanson, Don, True Lighthouse Hauntings, Revisited, (Keweenaw Video) including...
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    U.S. Route 41 in Michigan (category Transportation in Keweenaw County, Michigan)
    the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The trunkline ends at a cul-de-sac east of Fort Wilkins State Park after serving the Central Upper Peninsula and Copper...
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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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