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The Cana Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located just north of Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. Along with the Baileys Harbor Range Lights , the lighthouse was built to replace the Baileys Harbor Lighthouse in 1869 and was first lit in 1870.
The Cana Island Lighthouse (aka Cana Island Light) [8] was constructed in 1869 and opened as a museum site in 1971. [2] It is located near Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin . Access to the island is via a causeway.
Cana Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the town of Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [2] The Cana Island Light is on the east side of the island. It is possible to walk to Cana Island from the mainland over the tombolo when water levels are low. [ 3 ]
The climb to to the top of the 153-year-old, 89-foot-tall lighthouse had been closed to visitors this season. This concludes a 13-year project. Cana Island Lighthouse tower, keeper's house reopen ...
The playwright hopes to bring "Pilot Island & Her Keepers," which dramatizes stories of their lives, to a Door County theater as early as next year.
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Wisconsin as identified by the United States Coast Guard and other historical sources.. If not otherwise noted, focal height and coordinates are taken from the United States Coast Guard Light List, [1] while location and dates of activation, automation, and deactivation are taken from the United States Coast Guard Historical information ...
Served until 1988. An earlier lighthouse on the site, built 1836-7, was the first lighthouse on Lake Michigan and first in Wisconsin. [80] 59: PRIDE Shipwreck (Schooner) September 27, 2024 : 250 feet (76 m) north of the intersection of W Juniper St and N Lancing Ave in Sturgeon Bay, in the waters of Sturgeon Bay
It was the third lighthouse constructed in Door County after the lighthouses on Rock Island and Plum Island. An 1866 inspection declared the lighthouse was in "very defective condition" and in late fall of 1869 it closed. This coincided with the opening of the Baileys Harbor Range Lights and the Cana Island Lighthouse in 1870 which replaced it ...