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    The Milwaukee Pierhead Light is an active lighthouse located in the Milwaukee harbor, just south of downtown. This aid to navigation is a 'sister' of...
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    tower'", it is a sibling to the Milwaukee Pierhead Light. This light was built in 1906 as a replacement of the old Kenosha Light Station. It was listed on the...
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    transferred from the Milwaukee Pierhead Light. The "helical barred lantern is also thought to have come from the pierhead light". The lens was removed...
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    Washington North Breakwater Light". Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved 2018-12-09. "Port Washington Pierhead Light". Terry Pepper. Retrieved...
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  • With one photo. "Milwaukee Paper Box Company". Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved 2020-01-06. "Milwaukee Pierhead Light". Wisconsin Historical...
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    The Algoma Light or Algoma Pierhead Light is a lighthouse located near Algoma in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. The lighthouse was first established in 1893...
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  • site for lighthouses. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2012. "Historic Light Station Information and...
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    was added to the pierhead in the 1860s. By the turn of the century, the better harbors and railroad connections at Chicago, Milwaukee and Racine prevailed...
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  • Most parks in Milwaukee are owned and maintained by Milwaukee County as part of a county-wide system. However, some parks are administered by other entities...
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    Erie Street Plaza (category Buildings and structures in Milwaukee)
    Milwaukee Harbor from Lake Michigan. The Hoan Bridge and Milwaukee Pierhead Light are located to the east of the plaza and are visible from it. After...
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    Wind Point Lighthouse (or Windpoint Light Station) is a lighthouse located at the north end of Racine Harbor in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is in...
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    Interstate 43, the community is a suburb in the Milwaukee metropolitan area 27 miles (43 km) north of Milwaukee. The city's artificial harbor at the mouth...
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    exist—excepting e.g., Milwaukee Breakwater Light (1926), Poe Reef Light and Gravelly Shoal Light and some memorial lights, namely Manning Memorial Light, Another is...
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    to the keeper's quarters and constructed of Milwaukee Cream City brick, was built. The present 1857 light is a conical white tower, 89 feet (27 m) tall...
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    McGulpin Point Light was constructed as a navigational aid through the Straits of Mackinac. The light began operation in 1869, making it one of the oldest...
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    existing pierhead, dredging the channel, constructing a north pier, and constructing an additional revetment along the bend in the river. A light was added...
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  • navigational light placed upon it, locally maintained at first, and then after 1873 by the lighthouse service. A 1905 upgrade to the north pierhead light rendered...
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    Information Service. Retrieved April 25, 2018. Seeing The Light – Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Pierhead Light The Niagara Escarpment Archived 2008-05-02 at the Wayback...
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    Bay Canal North Pierhead Light. The Boyer Bluff Light is mounted on an 80-foot skeletal tower. In addition, the Baileys Harbor Light is a non-functioning...
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    "Kewaunee Pierhead Light". Wisconsin Shipwrecks. Wisconsin Sea Grant & Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-09-12. "Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse"...
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    Menominee Pierhead Light Station...
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    there were 2,252 registered boats in the county. Algoma Light and Kewaunee Pierhead Light are active navigational aids for boaters. The Daniel Lyons...
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    (1): 37–40, 44–45. "Development, Archaeology Collide on a Muddy Field". Milwaukee Journal 1993-04-11: B3. Overstreet, David F. (1998). "Late Pleistocene...
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    geo-coordinates are approximate. Andy Klevorn (January 14, 2000). "SS City of Milwaukee arrives in Manistee". Ludington Daily News. The NRIS database gives the...
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  • Wisconsin on a reef in Sturgeon Bay near the Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light, then drifted off the reef, broke up and sank, or she sank in Grand...
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  • Third Avenue Historic District (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin). Kewaunee Pierhead Light. "Assembly District 1". Wisconsin Legislature. Retrieved August 5, 2020...
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