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Managing Organization:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Notes:
This lighthouse was replaced by an automated light on a skeletal pole in 1976. Since then it has been increasingly endangered by neglect and vandalism.
Tower Height: 60
Height of Focal Plane: 80
Description of Tower: White, conical brick tower; lantern removed.
Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1.5 story wood frame keeper's house, steel fog signal building, storage building, cistern.
Date Established: 1874
Date Present Tower Built: 1874
Date Deactivated: 1976
Date Automated: 1957
Optics: 1874: Fourth order Fresnel lens; now 300 mm.
Current Use: Abandoned.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Accessible by boat only. Shoreline Charters in Gills Rock, Wisconsin, offers lighthouse cruises that pass Poverty Island. Call (920) 854-2606 or email front@theshorelineresort.com for information.
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