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Baileys Harbor Light

Location	Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin
Coordinates	45°03′21″N 87°05′49″W / 45.05583°N 87.09694°W / 45.05583; -87.09694
Tower
Constructed	1852
Construction	Stone
Light
Deactivated	1869
Lens	Sixth order Fresnel lens

The Baileys Harbor lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin.

Construction of Baileys Harbor Lighthouse began in 1852 and in 1853 David Ward became the first lighthouse keeper. It was the third lighthouse constructed in Door County after the lighthouses on Rock Island and Plum Island. An 1866 inspection declared the lighthouse was in "very defective condition" and in late fall of 1869 it closed. This coincided with the opening of the Baileys Harbor Range Lights and the Cana Island Lighthouse in 1870 which replaced it. Today the island is privately owned and the lighthouse is in decay but still standing.

It is one of four lighthouses in the country to have retained its bird-cage lantern.

Gallery

• Baileys Harbor Light; from a postcard circa 1905

Notes

1. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.
2. "Baileys Harbor Lighthouse". LighthouseFriends. Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-06-04.

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 2022-04-02.
• Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

• Seeing the light
• Lighthouse friends article
• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Bailey's Harbor Light in Lighthouse Resources: Historic Lighthouses & Light Stations, United States Coast Guard, October 21, 2019

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