Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light
Appearance
![]() South Pierhead Entrance Light with inner light also shown | |
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Location | Grand Haven, Michigan |
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Coordinates | 43°03′25.0″N 86°15′21.3″W / 43.056944°N 86.255917°W[1] |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1905 |
Automated | 1969[2] |
Height | 36 feet (11 m)[1] |
Markings | red ![]() |
Light | |
First lit | 1905[2] |
Focal height | 13 m (43 ft) ![]() |
Lens | 7.5 inches (190 mm)[2] |
Range | 17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi)[1] |
Characteristic | Fl R 10s ![]() |
Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light is the outer light of two lighthouses on the south pier of Grand Haven, Michigan where the Grand River enters Lake Michigan. A lighthouse was first lit there in 1839.[3] The lighthouse was put up for sale in 2009 under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.[4] The City of Grand Haven now owns the pier, but it is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
- ^ a b c GRAND HAVEN SOUTH PIERHEAD LIGHTS
- ^ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
- ^ "NHLPA 2009 Program, Notices of Availability". www.nps.gov/maritime. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
- ^ "Public safety and lakeshore piers". WZZM 13. Retrieved 30 July 2014.[permanent dead link]
External links
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- Interactive map on Michigan lighthouses, Detroit News
- Interactive map of lighthouses in southern Lake Michigan
- Lighthouse Friends (Grand Haven Light)
- Map of Michigan Lighthouse in PDF Format
- Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy, Grand Haven Lighthouse
- National Park Service Inventory of Historic Lighthouses, Maritime Heritage, Grand Haven South Pierhead light.
- Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Grand Haven Pier Light
- Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Michigan's Western Lower Peninsula". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- Wobser, David, boatnerd.com, Grand Haven South Pier and Pierhead Lights Archived 2013-12-29 at the Wayback Machine