Sunday, August 3, 2014

Lighthouse of the Week, August 3-9, 2014: South Bass Island, Lake Erie


With Lake Erie in the news in the past week due to a toxin from hazardous algae getting into municipal water supplies from the lake, I thought I would look for a good Lake Erie lighthouse.

This turned out to be harder than I thought.  Lake Erie has quite a few lighthouses, but several of them are replicas or tourist attractions or both.  I ended up choosing South Bass Island lighthouses, which is on the Register of National Historic Places, and though the historical light and attached residence are retired, there's still a working lighthouse tower there.

And I added in a picture of the original lighthouse's Fresnel lens.




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