White River Light

Infobox_Lighthouse


caption = White River Light Station,
Source: U.S. Coast Guard Archives
location = Near Whitehall, Michigan
coordinates =
yearlit = 1872 South Pier,
1876 Main Tower
automated = 1918 [Tag, Thomas A., "White River Light Station", Softcover (Dayton, OH: Data Image, 1996) p. 30 & 37. ISBN 0-9649980-2-5]
yeardeactivated =
foundations =
construction = 'Norman Gothic Style' [Tag, Thomas A., "White River Light Station", Softcover (Dayton, OH: Data Image, 1996) p. 21. ISBN 0-9649980-2-5]
shape = Octagonal
marking = Cream yellow brick
height =
lens = Fourth order Fresnel lens
range = Visible for about 14 miles
characteristic = Original lens a fixed white light with a red flash once each minute. 1912, light flashed white for 10 seconds then dark for 10 seconds & repeated. [Tag, Thomas A., "White River Light Station", Softcover (Dayton, OH: Data Image, 1996) p. 35 & 37. ISBN 0-9649980-2-5]

The White River Light is a lighthouse on Lake Michigan near the city of Whitehall, Michigan. It sits on a thin peninsula of land separating Lake Michigan from White Lake. The building was built in 1875.

Some of the buildings in existence for the lightstation consisted of the tower and attached dwelling, the South Pier-head Beacon light, oil house, woodshed or strage building and Privy. [Thomas A. Tag (1996) "White River Light Station", Softcover (Dayton, OH: Data Image, 1996) p.8. ISBN 0-9649980-2-5]

The lighthouse is open to the public as a museum with regular hours posted from Memorial Weekend through August 31. The lighthouse is also open through September and October with reduced hours. The museum has a number of artifacts from the passenger and freight shipping on the lakes in addition to information on the light itself.

ee also

*Lighthouses in the United States

External links

* [http://clarke.cmich.edu/lighthouses/lhtime1.htm Beacons in the Night, Michigan Lighthouse Chronology, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.]
* [http://www.lighthousecentral.com/lighthouse_gallery.php4?lighthouse=White%20River%20Lighthouse Lighthouse Central, Photographs, History, Directions and Way points for White River Light, "The Ultimate Guide to West Michigan Lighthouses" by Jerry Roach (Publisher: Bugs Publishing LLC - 2005).] ISBN 0-9747977-0-7.
* [http://www.whiteriverlightstation.org/ Official Site for the White River Lighthouse Museum]
* [http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/michigan/whitehall/whitehall.htm White River Light Page from Seeing the Light]
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/whiterv.htm Page from Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of Historic Light Stations]
*U.S. Coast Guard [http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHMI.asp 's complete list of Michigan lights with photographs and descriptions, including White River light.]
* [http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=192 White River Light Page at Lighthousefreinds.com]
* [http://www.michiganlights.com/whiteriverlh.htm White River Page from Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy]

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