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  2. Copper Harbor Light - Wikipedia

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    The Copper Harbor Light is a lighthouse located in the harbor of Copper Harbor, Michigan USA on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan inside Fort Wilkins Historic State Park. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It is a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

  3. Copper Harbor Front Range Light - Wikipedia

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    While the Copper Harbor Light effectively illuminated the area of the harbor, it failed to guide mariners through the narrow opening of rocks at its entrance. [2] Construction on the range lights were completed in 1869. According to US Government publication, "The American Practical Navigator", Chapter 5: "Range lights are light pairs that ...

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Keweenaw ...

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    The first Copper Harbor lighthouse and keeper's quarters were constructed in 1848. In 1866, the lighthouse was dismantled and the masonry used to construct a new tower. The light was deactivated in 1933, with the light being placed on an adjacent steel tower.

  5. Fort Wilkins Historic State Park - Wikipedia

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    Copper Harbor is located at the northern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, bordering Lake Superior. It is one of the best natural harbors in Keweenaw County and was a quick focus of attention after copper was discovered on the peninsula in the 1830s. In the early 1840s, a copper rush took place that saw a flood of fortune-seekers moving to the ...

  6. Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The township soon expanded and absorbed the townships of Sibley and Copper Harbor, which are now defunct but can be seen on an 1873 map of Keweenaw County. [ 4 ] The Keweenaw Rocket Range , located within the township at the easternmost tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula , was used by NASA as a rocket launch site from 1964 until 1971.

  7. List of lighthouses in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Harbor Beach Light: Lake Huron: Harbor Beach, Michigan: 54 ft (16 m) 1858/1885: 1968: Active [note 10] Harwood Point East Range Front Light: St. Marys River: Sugar Island: Destroyed Holland Harbor Light: Lake Michigan: Holland

  8. Crisp Point Light - Wikipedia

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    The Crisp Point Lighthouse was then leased to the Crisp Point Light Historical Society. In 2012, the CPLHS applied for a Private Aids to Navigation (PATON) permit to operate a Class II light from May 1 to November 1 each year, which was approved by the USCG on July 25, 2012. A 300mm LED marine light was installed in the tower on November 23, 2012.

  9. Manitou Island Light Station - Wikipedia

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    The first lighthouse on Manitou Island was a rubble-stone tower [3] built in 1850. [2] In 1861, the current light replaced it (one of three built that year with iron structure by the West Point Foundry in New York; [4] the other two were De Tour Reef and Whitefish Point lights, the latter of which still stands and it and Manitou are the oldest iron skeletal light towers on the Great Lakes ...