Calumet Light

Calumet Light
Calumet Harbor Light
Map
LocationCalumet, Wisconsin
Coordinates43°54′54″N 88°19′56.5″W / 43.91500°N 88.332361°W / 43.91500; -88.332361
Tower
Constructed1936 Edit this on Wikidata
ConstructionSteel skeletal
Height21 m (69 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Light
Focal height23 m (75 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
LensStrobes
Characteristic2 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]

Calumet Harbor from the Calumet Light

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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) 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.