Chambers Island Light

Lighthouse

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Chambers Island Lighthouse

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Area40 acres (16 ha)Built1868 (1868)NRHP reference No.75000063^[1]Added to NRHPAugust 19, 1975

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][3] The new light is identified by the USCG as 7-21895.

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.
3. ^ Chambers Island Lighthouse in Lighthouse Resources: Historic Lighthouses & Light Stations, United States Coast Guard, July 22, 2019

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 2022-04-02.
• 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chambers Island Lighthouse.

• Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum
• Chambers Island Light entry in Seeing the Light (Archived May 9, 2021)
• Lighthouse friends article
• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin (Archived March 14, 2012)
• 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

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