Rockwell Light

Rockwell Light

Rockwell Lighthouse
Location	Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°00′25.4″N 88°31′11.3″W
Tower
Constructed	1910
Construction	Concrete
Height	13 m (43 ft)
Shape	Octagonal
Light
First lit	1910
Deactivated	>1965
Focal height	26 ft (7.9 m)[1]
Characteristic	Fixed red

The Rockwell Light is located on the northern harbor area of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.

History

The lighthouse was thought up by William Bray as a way to mark his harbor as well as the entrance to the Fox River.[1] In 1909 Bray found an architect who drew up the plans but he died in that year before he could carry through with the work. Bray had the lighthouse completed in 1910 which appeared on Light Lists for several decades.[1] William Bray had paid for the lighthouse using his own funds. Later after commercial traffic picked up in the port the government realized the importance of the light so they paid some of its expenses.[2] The lighthouse was sold in 1917 and changed hands several times before a restoration job was done the following year. In the 1920s the lighthouse was operated by the Cook & Brown Lime Company which shipped goods along the Fox River. The company owned the lighthouse until at least 1965, further future information is unavailable.[1] At some point the lighthouse was deactivated as the structure no longer appears on the Coast Guard's official Light List.

Notes

1. "Bray's Point (Rockwell), WI". Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
2. Internet Public Library: Lighthouses: A Photographic Journey

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

External links

• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.