Visitors may also pose for the perfect photo opportunity with head and hands in an old set of punishment stocks. Tipping the scales at an impressive 3,425 pounds, this bronze behemoth is much bigger than the Liberty Bell, which weighed 2,080 pounds when cast. They can also ring the bell from the Lansing City Hall clock tower. Here, visitors can blow foghorns and examine other interesting artifacts. Nearby is the one-story side-gabled brick keeper’s dwelling which serves as a hands-on museum with a small gift shop. Visitors can climb the hand-hewn stone steps for a panoramic view of the Lake Huron shoreline and Presque Isle Harbor. The stone and brick tower measures thirty feet tall and eighteen feet in diameter. The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse park features two main structures, a keepers dwelling and a light tower. Built in 1840 by Jeremiah Moors of Detroit, the harbor light operated until 1871 when the keeper transferred to a new, taller, coastal lighthouse a mile to the north. The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on the Great Lakes. Ask about our Guest Lighthouse Keeper program. The lighthouse museum, pilot house and gift shop are open 10:00am to 4:00pm Tuesday through Sunday beginning Memorial Day weekend through mid-October. The park is open to the public year-round. The Society, with the help of many retired Great Lakes sailors, has also restored and preserved this structure. Several years ago, the pilot house from the Steamer Calcite, built in 1912 and the first self-unloading steamer on the Lakes, was relocated to the reservation. In 1996, the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society began restoring the lighthouse, outbuildings and grounds. Its 4th Order Fresnel lens has been a welcoming beacon to sailors since May 1897 and is still operating today. At a cost of $25,000, the station was completed by the end of 1896. We hope you enjoy your visit to the Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point!Ĥ0 Mile Point Lighthouse is located on the northern shoreline of Lake Huron in Presque Isle County’s Lighthouse Park, Rogers City, Michigan. Included with your Crew's Quarters overnight stay is admission to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and Whitefish Point Light Station and a 10% discount in the Shipwreck Coast Museum Store. Special discounted rates during April and May. The Crew's Quarters is open April 1st through November 10th. Overnight lodging is available in the 1923 restored Coast Guard Lifesaving Crew’s Quarters. The famous Whitefish Point Light Tower is open for tours, with all fees benefiting its restoration. The bell of the famous steamer Edmund Fitzgerald is on display and serves as a memorial to her crew. Admission includes the Shipwreck Museum gallery, a 15-minute video and tour(s) of the restored 1861 Lightkeeper’s Quarters and the 1923 Lifeboat Station Surfboat House. We offer a series of maritime history programs featured throughout the season. The museum features top quality exhibits of shipwreck artifacts, artwork, shipwreck models, new exhibits and lifelike mannequins. With more than 200 shipwrecks lying in the immediate vicinity, the area is known as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, located at Michigan’s Whitefish Point Light-Station, is approximately 1.5 hours drive from the Mackinac Bridge. Crisp Point Light Historical Society & Lighthouse.Erosion from Lake Superior is a constant concern. NOTE: Do not rely on GPS directions until you get to the corner of M-123 & CR-500 or you may end up on some roads only fit for 4x4's or less. In January of 1998, the Crisp Point Lighthouse Historical Society had stone placed in front of the lighthouse tower to protect it from Lake Superior. Most of the service room was washed away by Lake Superior in November of 1996. Today the lighthouse stands with its newly built (2006) service building and a newly built (2009) nearby visitor's center that replicates the fog horn building. Originally this site contained a lifesaving station and quarters, a two family brick light keeper's house with basement, a brick fog signal building, an oil house, two frame barns, a boat house and landing, a tramway, a lighthouse tower, and a brick service room entrance building. The lighthouse was once crowned with a fixed 360 degree, red, fourth order light and stands 58 feet from its base to the ventilator ball of the lantern. It was constructed in 19 and became operational on May 5, 1904. It is located approximately 15 miles west of Whitefish Point in a remote area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Lighthouse address is 1944 CR-412, Newberry Ml 49868.
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