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Lights are located on the end of each pier. The extreme outer portions of the piers are stone filled timber cribs, each 24 feet wide and 100 feet long Riprap is placed on both sides of the crib. Inland of the cribs, the remaining pier sections are constructed of wood piling spaced 13 feet apart and filled with stone.
In 1855, Charles Mears constructed a 70-foot-wide (21 m) channel from Pentwater Lake to Lake Michigan, lined with timber cribbing, [4] to accommodate his lumbering interests. [5] In 1858, he built a pier extending over 600 feet (180 m) into Lake Michigan where ships could dock. [6] Additional pier structures were built to line the channel. [6]
The piers are stone-filled timber cribs, 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, with the exception of the shoreward portion of the south pier, which is constructed of wooden pilings filled with sand. [3] The original piers were wrapped in sheet piling in the 1950s-60s, and the entire structure capped in concrete; the piers now range from 27 feet (8.2 m) to 33 ...
Detour Reef Light is one of more than 150 past and present major "lights" (which are greater in number than "lighthouses"—which implies a keeper's quarters)—in Michigan. This is just one of the 40 lighthouses in Michigan which have been transferred to private ownership in the recent past. [18]
The Straits of Mackinac are named after Mackinac Island. The local Ojibwe Native Americans in the Straits of Mackinac region likened the shape of the island to that of a turtle, so they named the island Mitchimakinak, meaning "Big Turtle". [3] When the British explored the area, they shortened the name to its present form: Mackinac. [4] [5]
A good launch point is the south end of the island of Grosse Ile, Michigan. [ 18 ] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Detroit River Light Station on August 4, 1983, reference number 83000886.
A light was added to the south pier in 1881. [2] By 1880, the COE had completed most of the construction work. During the 1880s, both of the piers were extended to give greater protection to the harbor and reduce the shoaling of sand into the channel. By 1890, the north pier was about 1,120 feet long, and the south pier approximately 1,300 feet.
Grosse Ile (/ ˌ ɡ r oʊ s ˈ iː l / grows-EEL) is an American island in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [1] Located just west of the Canada–United States border in the Detroit River, it is the largest island in the river and the most-populated island in the state of Michigan. The island is administered by Grosse Ile Township.