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The Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse in 1994. In 2003 Milwaukee County leased the lighthouse and keepers quarters to the North Point Lighthouse Friends and they began restoration of the tower and keepers quarters. A $984,000 grant was used to restore the light station and it re-opened to the public as a maritime museum in 2007. [5]
The North Point Range Lights were some of the earliest lights in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Intended to guide ships headed for Baltimore harbor into the Patapsco River , they were superseded by channel construction in the 1870s and 1980s, and were replaced by the Craighill Channel Upper Range front and rear lights.
Media related to Point No Point Light (Maryland) at Wikimedia Commons Point No Point Light Station, including photo from 2000, at Maryland Historical Trust; Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Maryland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Maryland portal; National Register of Historic Places portal
An initial plan to reuse the west North Point Range Light was discarded in favor of a tiny brick structure constructed on the foundation of the old light. The keeper's house was built on the shore, and a long wooden bridge allowed access to the light itself.
One of the most famous towers was the Thomas Point Shoal Light; it has been called “the finest example of a screw pile cottage anywhere in the world.” [29] Another historic lighthouse in America is the San Juan de Ulúa fortress Veracruz lighthouse (1790), which was the first modern lighthouse in the American Spanish Empire. [30]
Sheboygan Lighthouse ; Location: North Point in Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Coordinates: approx.: Tower; Construction: Brick (first) Wood frame (second): Shape: Conical tower (first) Dwelling with lantern on roof (second): Light; First lit: 1839: Lens: reflectors; replaced with fifth order Fresnel lens: The Sheboygan Lighthouse stood on North Point in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Improvements to the harbor ...
The Craighill Channel Lower Range Front Light, named for William Price Craighill, was the first caisson lighthouse built in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA. [2] [3] First lit in 1873, the range marks the first leg of the maintained Craighill Channel from the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River into the Baltimore harbor and works in conjunction with the Craighill Channel Lower ...
The United States government agreed to construct the lighthouse at Grosse Point after several maritime disasters near the area showed need for it. Shoals were a real hazard, and ship traffic was increasing concurrent with development in the Midwest, the growth of Chicago, the aftermath of the Chicago Fire, and the increased trade and exploitation of natural resources throughout the Great Lakes ...