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Managing Organization:
Door County Maritime Museum
Telephone: 920-743-5958
Website: http://dcmm.org/canaisland.html
Email:
Contact Address Information:
120 N. Madison Avenue
Sturgeon Bay
Wisconsin, 54235, United States
Notes:
The Door County Maritime Museum leased this lighthouse station from the Coast Guard in the 1970s, and they continue to maintain it as a museum while the Coast Guard still maintains the active beacon.
Tower Height: 81
Height of Focal Plane: 89
Description of Tower: White, conical brick tower sheathed in steel.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1870 1.5 story keeper's house, oil house, privy, storage building.
Date Established: 1870
Date Present Tower Built: 1870
Date Automated: 1945
Optics: 1870: Third order Fresnel lens, still in use.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation, museum.
Open To Public? Yes.
Museum?
Cana Island Lighthouse is open to the public seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through October 29. The keeper's dwelling and oil house are open as a museum.
Directions:
The lighthouse is located north of Bailey's Harbor off County Highway Q, at the end of Cana Island Road. There is a rock causeway (pedestrians only) connecting the island to the mainland.
Keepers: William Jackson (1869-1872), Julius Warren (1872-1875), William A Sanderson (1875-1891), Thomas Brown (1891-1913), Conrad Stram (1913-1918), Oscar H Knudsen (1918-1924), Cliifford Sanderson (1924-1933), Ross Wright (1933-1941)
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