Because last week's lighthouse was the Duluth Harbor North Pier Light, it seems logical that this week's lighthouse should be the South Pier Light. I won't put the live camera on this post, but you can visit it in the last post.
And it's in the same location, which is here.
So let's learn about this one, from the Lighthouse Directory, my go-to source.
"1901 (station established 1874). Active; focal plane 44 ft (13 m); continuous green light. 35 ft (10.5 m) cylindrical brick tower with lantern and gallery, mounted on square brick fog signal building. The original 4th order Barbier & Fenestre Fresnel lens (1877, transferred from the earlier tower) has been replaced recently by an LED optic. Lighthouse painted white; lantern roof and fog signal building roof are red. Fog horn (two 3 s blasts every 60 s). The original wood keeper's house is located onshore. ... The original lighthouse was a square pyramidal wood tower. It was replaced when a new and longer breakwater was built. In 1995 the Coast Guard installed, as an addition to the modern fog signal, the historic type F diaphones originally installed at Kewaunee Pierhead Light, Wisconsin. In 2003 the city council approved a proposal of TOOT Inc. (reTurn Our Old Tone) to operate the diaphones during daylight hours, but the modern (and softer) signal was used at night. Sadly, the operation of the diaphones came to an end in 2006 when the Coast Guard stopped maintaining the electrical equipment needed to operate the horns; they are now dismantled and in storage."
I don't know if it's still available for purchase; it was in 2018.
Lighthouse Friends has a page with more history.
And I have three pictures. If you're thinking of living there, it does experience a little wave action at times.
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