Baileys Harbor Light

Baileys Harbor Light


Location	Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin
Coordinates	45°03′21″N 87°05′49″W / 45.05583°N 87.09694°W / 45.05583; -87.09694Coordinates: 45°03′21″N 87°05′49″W / 45.05583°N 87.09694°W / 45.05583; -87.09694
Deactivated	1869
Construction	Stone
Original lens	Sixth order Fresnel lens

The Baileys Harbor lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin.

Construction of Baileys Harbor Lighthouse began in 1852 and in 1853 David Ward became the first lighthouse keeper. 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 Cana Island Lighthouse in 1870. Today the island is privately owned and the lighthouse is in decay but still standing.^[1]

Replaced by the Baileys Harbor Range Lights and the Cana Island Lighthouse in 1869. It is one of four lighthouses in the country to have retained its bird-cage lantern.

Notes

↑ "Baileys Harbor Lighthouse". LighthouseFriends. Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-06-04.

Additional reading

Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". Archived from the original on 2008-01-30.
Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

Seeing the light
Lighthouse friends article
Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.

Lighthouses of Wisconsin

See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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