Chambers Island Light Explained

Chambers Island Light
Location:	Chambers Island, Wisconsin
Coordinates:	45.2025°N -87.3647°W
Yearlit:	1868
Automated:	1961
Yeardeactivated:	1961
Foundation:	Concrete
Construction:	Brick
Shape:	Octagonal without lantern
Module:	Embed: yes Chambers Island Lighthouse Added: August 19, 1975 Refnum: 75000063

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 .^[1] 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.

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) .
• Web site: Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes . Pepper, Terry . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20220402173558/http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm . 2022-04-02 .
• Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ; .
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) .

External links

• 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)
  • • • History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - lists replacement skeletal light

Notes and References

1. https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Land/All/Article/1912538/chambers-island-lighthouse/ Chambers Island Lighthouse