Original Lens Distribution | Seeing The Light |
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The following list breaks
down all of the lights of the Western Great Lakes by the type of lens
originally installed in the current structure. If you have definitive
proof of any errors, or the type of lens incorporated in a lights for
which we have yet to identify the lens installed, please feel free to
email us. |
Stations with Second Order Fresnel lenses |
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Rock of Ages Stannard's Rock Grosse Point |
White Shoal Light Spectacle Reef |
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Stations with Third Order Fresnel Lenses |
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Au Sable Point Big Bay Point Big Sable Cana Island Devils Island Lansing Shoal Little Sable Manitou Island Martin Reef Outer Island |
Poe Reef Point Aux Barques Presque Isle New Rawley Point (Twin River) South Manitou Island Whitefish Point Wind Point Split Rock (bivalve) Sturgeon Bay Canal |
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Stations with Third and a half Order Fresnel lenses |
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Detour Reef Eagle Bluff Gray's Reef Huron Island |
McGulpin's Point Michigan Island (1st tower) St. Helena Island Sturgeon Point |
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Stations with Fourth Order Fresnel lenses |
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Alpena Ashland Harbor Breakwater Beaver Island Bois Blanc Island Chambers Island Charity Island Cheboygan Crib Chequamegon Point Copper Harbor Crisp Point Detroit River (Bar Point Shoal) Duluth Harbor S. Breakwater Inner Duluth Harbor S. Breakwater Outer Eagle Harbor Forty Mile Point Fourteen Foot Shoal Grand Haven Inner Pier head Grand Island Old North Granite Island Gull Rock Harbor Beach Holland Harbor South Pier Isle Royale Keweenaw Lower Entrance Kenosha (Southport) La Pointe (Long Island) Little Traverse Harbor Point Ludington North Breakwater Manistique East Breakwater Manitowoc Breakwater Marquette Harbor Mendota (Bete Grise) Menominee North Pier head Middle Island Milwaukee Breakwater |
Milwaukee Pierhead Minneapolis Shoal Muskegon South Breakwater North Manitou Shoal North Point (Milwaukee) Old Mackinac Point Passage Island Pilot Island Plum Island Rear Range Point Betsie Point Iroquois Point Sanilac Port Austin Reef Port Washington Main Poverty Island Presque Isle Old Rock Harbor Round Island Sand Hills Sand Island Sand Point (Escanaba) Seul Choix Point South Fox Island Squaw Island St. Clair Flats Channel St. James (Beaver Island Harbor) Light St. Joseph Inner Pier head St. Martin Island Light Tawas Point Thunder Bay Main Two Harbors Waugoshance White River Wisconsin Point |
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Stations with Fifth Order Fresnel lenses |
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Algoma Front
Pier head Bailey's Harbor Range Duluth Harbor North Pier Fort Gratiot Frankfort North Breakwater Grand Marais (MI) Rear Range Grand Marais (MN) pierhead Grand Traverse Kewaunee Pier head Manistee North Pier head |
Michigan City Old Lighthouse Michigan City Pier head Minnesota Point Lighthouse (ruins) Old Mission Point Ontonagon Portage River (Jacobsville) Raspberry Island Sherwood Point South Haven South Pier head St. Joseph Outer Pierhead |
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Stations with Sixth Order Fresnel lenses |
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Cheboygan River Range Front Eagle River Grand Haven Outer Pier head |
Saginaw River Rear Range Sturgeon Bay N. Pierhead Two Rivers |
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Stations with non-Fresnel lenses | ||
Bailey's Harbor Light
- Argand lamp with reflector Munising rear Range Light - Adam & Westlake Reflectors Peninsula Point Light - Argand lamp with reflector Pottawatomie (Rock Island) - Eleven lamp Winslow array Round Island Passage Light - Sealed Beam |
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Stations with as yet undetermined lenses | ||
Charlevoix South Pier Grand Island East Channel Grand Island Harbor Rear Range |
Racine Harbor Sand Point (Baraga) |