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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Notes:
This lighthouse developed a slight lean when it was being worked on in 1994.
Tower Height: 57
Height of Focal Plane: 55
Description of Tower: White, square pyramidal steel tower.
This light is operational
Date Established: 1871
Date Present Tower Built: 1924
Optics: 1924: Fourth order Fresnel lens (now on display at White Pine Village Maritime Museum); now modern optic.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? Grounds only.
Directions:
This lighthouse is at the western end of US Route 10 (Ludington Avenue), near Stearns Park. It is also near the southern end of M-116. A visitor to this site writes, "The lighthouse is not open to the public, but the grounds are. And since the Corp of Engineers have worked on it and made a wider path you can now walk up to the light."
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