30 The availability and awarding of MLAP grants was a 34 significant contribution toward the planning 35 24 and complete restoration of the historic buildings at the Point Betsie Light Station. Chuck Clarke, 4 7 8 5 3 Friends of Point Betsie Lighthouse 9 17 21 36 KEWEENAW 25 20 38 32 HOUGHTON 19 10 18 29 28 37 39 13 15 6 ONTONAGON 16 14 BARAGA 2 11 1 3323 22 26 LUCE 31 12 27 GOGEBIC MARQUETTE ALGER CHIPPEWA IRON SCHOOLCRAFT DICKINSON MACKINAC DELTA 120 97 69 81 107 95 87 51 49 79 75 106 56 83 109 67 74 57 94 64 90 86 98 40 70 59 66 85 MENOMINEE 41 EMMET 43 78 53 89 103104 71 44 CHEBOYGAN PRESQUE ISLE 105 102 63 48 CHARLEVOIX 73 96 58 112 60 ANTRIM OTSEGO MONTMORENCY ALPENA 82 LEELANAU 65 45 110 BENZIE GRAND KALKASKA CRAWFORD OSCODA ALCONA TRAVERSE MANISTEE WEXFORD MISSAUKEE ROSCOMMON OGEMAW IOSCO 55 111 ARENAC 100 42 MASON LAKE OSCEOLACLARE GLADWIN 91 84 99 54 HURON 92 BAY 52 OCEANA MECOSTA ISABELLA MIDLAND 108 NEWAYGO TUSCOLA SANILAC 101 MONTCALM 80 GRATIOT SAGINAW MUSKEGON 61 62 GENESEE LAPEER 46 47 ST. CLAIR OTTAWA KENT SHIAWASSEE 88 IONIACLINTON 93 50 MACOMB 119 OAKLAND 114 68 ALLEGAN BARRY EATON INGHAM LIVINGSTON 115 113 116 121 72 VAN BUREN KALAMAZOOCALHOUN JACKSON WASHTENAW WAYNE 118 76 77 117 BERRIENCASS ST. JOSEPH BRANCH HILLSDALELENAWEE MONROE The Great Lighthouse at Alexandria, one of the A set of standard designs, developed by lighthouse We think of light keeping as a romantic occupation, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is considered engineers, emerged during the nineteenth century but many light keepers lived a solitary, isolated the first lighthouse ever built. Located on the Island resulting in many similar lights. life, particularly those who served on offshore of Pharos, the tower stood some 400 feet tall with lights. Keepers received food and other supplies an open flame at the top. Completed around 285 BC, from tender vessels several times a year. They also Over time light keepers used various oils to light the lighthouse survived nearly 1500 years until it gathered wild berries and ate locally caught fish the lamps, including whale oil, rapeseed oil, lard oil, Point Betsie Light Station crumbled during an earthquake. and game. John Malone, the keeper at Isle Royale and kerosene. By the 1940s nearly all Great Lakes Lighthouse between 1878 and 1893, kept a detailed lighthouses had been converted to electricity. account in his journal of the number of seagull eggs Michigan’s first lighthouse, the Fort Gratiot Light, Electric power and other changes in technology he and his crew gathered. During June and early served only three years from 1825 to 1828, when a made the job of light keeper obsolete. July 1886 they ate roughly 30 eggs a day. storm toppled the structure. The oldest part of the current lighthouse dates from 1829. The tower was raised 20 feet in 1861, and the adjacent two-story light keeper’s house dates from 1874–75. For further information about the Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program, visit michigan.gov/shpo. Courtesy Archives of Michigan The funding obtained from the sale of the lighthouse license plates and the dedicated support from the State Historic Preservation Office staff contributed greatly to the success of the rehabilitation of the DeTour Reef Light and provided incentive for our organization to continue to preserve and protect the light for all to enjoy. Jeri Baron Feltner, Au Sable Light Station DeTour Reef Light Station Founding Director Emeritus, DeTour Reef Light Preservation Society Michigan’s Historic Lighthouses Lake Superior 46 Grand Haven South Pierhead Entrance Light Station 92 Harbor Beach (Sand Beach) Light Station 1 Au Sable Light Station 47 Grand Haven South Pierhead Inner Light Station 93 Lightship Huron 2 Big Bay Point Light Station 48 Grand Traverse Light Station 94 Mackinac Point Light Station 3 Copper Harbor Front Range Light Station 49 Gray’s Reef Light Station 95 Martin Reef Light Station 4 Copper Harbor Light Station 50 Holland Harbor (South Pierhead) Light Station 96 Middle Island Light Station 5 Copper Harbor Rear Range Light Station 51 Lansing Shoal Light Station 97 Pipe Island Light Station 6 Crisp Point Light Station 52 Little Sable Point Light Station 98 Poe Reef Light Station 7 Eagle Harbor Light Station 53 Little Traverse Light Station 99 Point Aux Barques Light Station 8 Eagle Harbor Rear Range Light Station 54 Ludington North Pierhead Light Station 100 Port Austin Reef Light Station 9 Eagle River Light Station 55 Manistee North Pierhead Light Station 101 Port Sanilac Light Station 10 Fourteen Mile Point Light Station 56 Manistique East Breakwater Light Station 102 Presque Isle Front Range Light Station 11 Grand Island East Channel Light Station 57 McGulpin’s Point Light Station 103 Presque Isle Light Station (New) 12 Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light Station 58 Menominee North Pier Light Station 104 Presque Isle Light Station (Old) 13 Grand Island North Light Station 59 Minneapolis Shoal Light Station 105 Presque Isle Rear Range Light Station 14 Grand Marais Harbor Inner Range Light Station 60 Mission Point Light Station 106 Round Island Light Station (Straits of Mackinac) 15 Grand Marais Harbor Outer Range Light Station 61 Muskegon South Breakwater Light Station 107 Round Island Passage Light Station 16 Granite Island Light Station 62 Muskegon South Pier Light Station 108 Saginaw River Rear Range Light Station 17 Gull Rock Light Station 63 North Manitou Shoal Light Station 109 Spectacle Reef Light Station 18 Huron Island Light Station 64 Peninsula Point Light Station 110 Sturgeon Point Light Station 19 Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light Station 65 Point Betsie Light Station 111 Tawas Point Light Station 20 Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light Station 66 Poverty Island Light Station 112 Thunder Bay Island Light Station 21 Manitou Island Light Station 67 Sand Point Light Station (Escanaba) Lake St. Clair 22 Marquette Breakwater Outer Light 68 Saugatuck Light Station 23 Marquette Harbor Light Station 69 Seul Choix Pointe Light Station 113 Lake St. Clair Light Station 24 Menagerie Island (Isle Royale) Light Station 70 Skillagalee Island Light Station 114 St. Clair Flats South Channel Front Range Light Station 25 Mendota Light Station 71 South Fox Island Light Station 115 St. Clair Flats South Channel Rear Range Light Station 26 Munising Front Range Light Station 72 South Haven South Pier Light Station 116 Windmill Point Light Station 27 Munising Rear Range Light Station 73 South Manitou Island Light Station Rivers 28 Ontonagon Harbor West Pierhead Light Station 74 Squaw Island Light Station 29 Ontonagon Light Station 75 St. Helena Island Light Station 117 Detroit River Light Station—Detroit River 30 Passage Island Light Station 76 St. Joseph North Pier Inner Light Station 118 Grosse Ile North Channel Front Range Light Station—Detroit River 31 Point Iroquois Light Station 77 St. Joseph North Pier Outer Light Station 119 Peche Island Rear Range Light Station—St. Clair River 32 Portage River Light Station 78 St. Martin Island Light Station 120 Round Island Light Station—St. Mary’s River 33 Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater Light Station 79 Waugoshance Light Station 121 William Livingstone Memorial Light Station—Detroit River 34 Rock Harbor Light Station 80 White River Light Station * Light Station is used throughout to refer to either a complex of buildings, or an individual light. 35 Rock of Ages Light Station 81 White Shoal Light Station 36 Sand Hills Light Station Lake Huron 37 Sand Point Light Station (Baraga vicinity) The Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program has played 38 Stannard Rock Light Station 82 Alpena Light Station a crucial role in the restoration of Gull Rock Lighthouse 83 Bois Blanc Island Light Station 39 Whitefish Point Light Station and many, many other historically important Great Lakes 84 Charity Island Light Station light stations. If it were not for MLAP, Gull Rock and many Lake Michigan 85 Cheboygan Crib Light Station 40 Beaver Island Harbor Light Station (St. James) 86 Cheboygan River Front Range Light Station other Great Lakes lights would be falling further and 41 Beaver Island Light Station (Beaver Head) 87 DeTour Reef Light Station further into disrepair, and possibly be lost forever. 42 Big Sable Point Light Station 88 Fort Gratiot Light Station Peter Annin, 43 Cedar River Light Station 89 Forty Mile Point Light Station Chairman, Gull Rock Lightkeepers 44 Charlevoix South Pier Light Station 90 Fourteen Foot Shoal Light Station 45 Frankfort North Breakwater Light Station 91 Gravelly Shoal Light Station Investing in People. Investing in Places. Investing in People. Investing rehabilitation of these important structures. $2 Office. Since 2001 the MLAP awardedhas nearly administered by the State Historic Preservation LighthouseMichigan Assistance Program (MLAP), Lights these historic by purchasing a places with the Great Lake State. help preserve can You state these and unique structures are synonymous Michigan Washington, DC 20240 above, or if you desire further information, please write to: National Park Service,disability. 1849 C Street, If you believe NW, you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, orprohibits facility as described discrimination on the basis of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, maritalthe status, basis of race, or color, national origin, disability, or age in its federally assisted programs.Discrimination Michigan law Act of 1975, as amended, the U.S. Department of the Interior prohibitsUnder discrimination Title VI of the on Civil Rights Acts of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation ActThis of 1973, program and the Age receives federal financial assistance for identification and protection of historic properties. products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department ofthe the views Interior.