 Listed in National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location | Ten miles south of Pentwater, Michigan on Lake Michigan, Little Sable Point, Golden Township, Michigan |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 43°39′6″N 86°32′20″W / 43.65167°N 86.53889°W |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1874 |
| Foundation | 109 wooden piles, driven into sand[7] |
| Construction | Rust brick, Italianate bracketing |
| Automated | 1955[1] |
| Height | 107 feet (33 m)[2] |
| Shape | Frustum of a cone |
| Markings | Red brick, natural (orig. white), black trim and lantern[8][9] |
| Heritage | National Register of Historic Places listed place  |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1874[1] |
| Deactivated | 2014 |
| Focal height | 115 feet (35 m)[3] |
| Lens | Third-Order Fresnel lens[10][11] |
| Intensity | 40,000 candlepower[4] |
| Range | 15 nautical miles; 27 kilometres (17 mi)[citation needed] |
| Characteristic | Flashing white, 1 flash every 6 sec.[5][6] |
Little Sable Point Light Station (U.S. Coast Guard Light Station/Great Lakes) | |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Architect | Col. Orlando M. Poe |
| Architectural style | Italianate bracketing |
| MPS | U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84001827[12] |
| Added to NRHP | July 19, 1984 |
The Little Sable Point Light is a lighthouse located south of Pentwater in the lower peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.[13][14][15][16] It is in the southwest corner of Golden Township, just south of Silver Lake State Park.
The lighthouse was designed by Col. Orlando M. Poe and has been described as "a classic Poe tower."[16][17] The design used 109 1-foot-diameter wood pilings[18] driven into the sand, capped by 12 feet of stone as a stout base for the brick tower. The walls of the tower are 5 feet (1.5 m) thick at the base and 2 feet (0.61 m) at its zenith.[19]
- ^ a b "Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Michigan Lighthouses", Maritime Heritage Program, National Park Service, accessed 2008-07-06
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Tower Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com. Archived from the original on 2000-09-18.
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Focal Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com. Archived from the original on 2008-08-30.
- ^ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Michigan". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- ^ Tag, Thomas A., Little Sable Point Light Station, Softcover (Dayton, OH: Data Image, 1996) p. 10. ISBN 0-9649980-1-7
- ^ Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
- ^ Tag, Thomas A., Little Sable Point Light Station, Softcover (Dayton, OH: Data Image, 1996) p. 35. ISBN 0-9649980-1-7
- ^ "Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy, Little Sable Point Light".
- ^ Roach, Jerry, Lighthouse Central, Photographs, History, Directions and Way points for Little Sable Point Light, The Ultimate Guide to West Michigan Lighthouses (Publisher: Bugs Publishing LLC - 2005). ISBN 0-9747977-0-7.
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Original Lenses". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com. Archived from the original on 2000-09-18.
- ^ "Anderson, Kraig, Lighthouse friends article, Little Sable Point".
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Pepper, Terry, Seeing the Light, Little Sable Light at terrypepper.com".
- ^ "Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, Little Point Sable (Lake Michigan) Light, ARLHS USA-443".
- ^ "Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society World List of Lights (WLOL)".
- ^ a b Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Michigan's Western Lower Peninsula". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- ^ "Wobser, David, boatnerd.com, Little Sable Point Light". Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ^ National Park Service "Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Michigan Lighthouses" Little Sable Point.
- ^ Interactive map on Michigan lighthouses. The Detroit News