Sand Point Lighthouse Escanaba 5881
by Norris Seward
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Sand Point Lighthouse Escanaba 5881
Artist
Norris Seward
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Photograph - Print
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Sand Point Lighthouse in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Escanaba. Built-in 1867. It was a one and a half story rectangular building, standard for the times, with an attached brick tower topped by a cast-iron lantern room which housed a fourth-order Fresnel lens. The light, a fixed red signal, first showed on the night of May 13, 1868. Ships, first schooners, and later steamers and whalebacks, carried iron ore out from the several ore docks, and lumber from sawmills. Even before the railroad reached Escanaba from Green Bay, passengers arrived by boat from the south. The light warned the ships off Sand Point and the sand reef which reached out into the Bay. The Sand Point Lighthouse served mariners continuously from 1868 until 1939, except for a short time in 1886 when it was out of commission because of a fire that severely damaged the building.
One of the great things about visiting this old lighthouse is all the history they hold and the beautiful scenery for us to explore!
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May 20th, 2015
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