Calumet Light

Calumet Light
Calumet Harbor Light

Location	Calumet, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43°54′54″N 88°19′56.5″W / 43.91500°N 88.332361°W / 43.91500; -88.332361Coordinates: 43°54′54″N 88°19′56.5″W / 43.91500°N 88.332361°W / 43.91500; -88.332361
Construction	Steel skeletal
Original lens	Strobes
Characteristic	2 flashing white

The Calumet Harbor lighthouse is a three-story, open-air lighthouse and observation tower located in Calumet Harbor, in the town of Calumet, Wisconsin, approximately one mile west of Pipe, Wisconsin. It is located on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago, inside the Columbia Park, a Fond du Lac County park. The structure is a steel skeletal tower with two flashing white strobe lights located on top.^[1]^[2]

Notes

Additional 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 2008-01-30.
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

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.

Lighthouses of Wisconsin

See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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