La Pointe Light Explained

Location:	Long Island, Wisconsin
Yearbuilt:	1896
Yearlit:	1896
Automated:	1964
Foundation:	Concrete
Construction:	Cast iron
Shape:	White, Skeletal with a central column
Focalheight:	^[1]
Lens:	Fourth order Fresnel lens (original), 300mmTideland Signal ML-300 Acrylic Optic (current)
Characteristic:	Green, Isophase (Equal interval), 6 sec
Module:	Embed: yes La Pointe Light Station Nearest City: Bayfield, Wisconsin Added: August 04, 1983 Refnum: 83003366

The La Pointe Light is a lighthouse located on Long Island, one of the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior in Ashland County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield.

Currently owned by the National Park Service and part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, as reference number 83003366. Listed in the Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey, WI-325 and WI-325-A. One of the oldest skeletal lighthouses on the Great Lakes, it played an important role in transportation on Lake Superior.^[2] A square wooden tower, constructed in 1858, was located around west of the current light.^[3] The previous lens was moved to the Chequamegon Point Lighthouse in 1897. It is one of the Apostle Islands Lighthouses.

Getting there

Most of the Apostle Islands light stations may be reached on the Apostle Islands Cruise Service^[4] water taxi or by private boat during the summer. During the Annual Apostle Island Lighthouse Celebration^[5] ferry tour service is available for all the lighthouses. In the tourist season, volunteer park rangers are on many of the islands to greet visitors.^[6]

Further reading

• Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
• Jalbert, Andrew J. Schooner Lucerne: Lessons from a Great Lakes Shipwreck (July 27, 2007) originally printed in Sea History magazine, The Wreck of the Schooner Lucerne.
• 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/20080130074143/http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm . 2008-01-30 .
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) .

External links

• Aerial photos of La Pointe Light, Marina.com.
• Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey Survey number HABS WI-325
• Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey Survey number HABS WI-325-A
• Lighthouse Friends, La Pointe Light article
• National Park Service Maritime History Project, Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin, La Pointe Light.
• Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, New La Pointe Light Station.
• Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Old La Pointe Light Station.
  • • • Wobser, David, La Pointe Light, Boatnerd Originally in Great Laker Magazine.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes . Pepper, Terry . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080130074143/http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm . 2008-01-30 .
2. http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/superior/lapointe_new/index.htm Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, New La Pointe Light Station.
3. http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/superior/lapointe_old/index.htm Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Old La Pointe Light Station.
4. http://www.apostleisland.com Apostle Islands Cruise Service.
5. http://www.lighthousecelebration.com Apostle Island Lighthouse Celebration.
6. http://lighthouse.boatnerd.com/gallery/Superior/LaPointe.htm Wobser, David, La Pointe Light