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Long Tail Point Light

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Nearest Town or City:	Green Bay Wisconsin United States
Location:	Lake Michigan, three miles north of Green Bay.
Managing Organization:	Long Tail Point State Wildlife Area
Notes:	This tower is all that remains of three different Long Tail Point lighthouses. The lighthouse was discontinued in 1859 because of danger from shore erosion. In the 1970s the government gave the tower to an individual with instructions that it be torn down. He found the task too difficult and the old stone tower still stands, minus its lantern, abandoned and decaying.
Tower Height:	65
Description Tower:	Conical stone tower.
Operational:	No
Date Established:	1849
Date Present Tower Built:	1849
Current Use:	Abandoned.
Open To Public:	no
Directions:	Accessible by boat only.
Other Buildings:	none
Height Focal Plane:	0
National Register:	No
Keepers:	John P. Dousman (1849-1853); Thomas Atkinson (1853-1859).
State:	Wisconsin
Country:	United States
Signal:	Originally fog bell.
Museum:	no
Date Deactivated:	1859

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