Chambers Island Light

The Chambers Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin. It was replaced in 1961 by a skeletal tower, visible for 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi).[2] The new light is identified by the USCG as 7-21895.

Chambers Island Light

Location	Chambers Island, Wisconsin
Coordinates	45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W
Year first lit	1868
Automated	1961
Deactivated	1961
Foundation	Concrete
Construction	Brick
Tower shape	Octagonal without lantern
Tower height	67 feet (20 m)
Focal height	30 metre
Range	10 nautical mile
Characteristic	Fl W 6s
Heritage	place listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Chambers Island Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	40 acres (16 ha)
Built	1868
NRHP reference No.	75000063[1]
Added to NRHP	August 19, 1975

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as reference #75000063.

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  USCG archive photo
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  USCG archive – no lantern

Notes

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014. p. 214.

Further 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

• Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum
• Seeing the Light
• Lighthouse friends article
• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
• 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. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
• Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
• History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - lists replacement skeletal light