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Chambers Island Light 
Location Chambers Island, Wisconsin Coordinates 45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W / 45.2025°N 87.36472°WCoordinates: 45°12′09″N 87°21′53″W / 45.2025°N 87.36472°W Year first lit 1868 Automated 1961 Deactivated 1961 Foundation Concrete Construction Brick Tower shape Octagonal without lantern Height 67 feet (20 m) The Chambers Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as reference #75000063. It was replaced in 1961 by a skeletal tower, visible for 10 statute miles (16 km).
USCG archive photo
USCG archive – no lanternSpecialized Additional 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". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm.
- Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0923568476; ISBN 978-0923568474.
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.
External links
- Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum.
- Seeing the Light
- Lighthouse friends article
- NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
- Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/wi.htm.
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHWI.asp.
- (PDF) Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes. Light List. United States Coast Guard. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList%20V7.pdf.
- History of the Chambers Island Lighthouse - Lists replacement skeletal light
Lighthouses of Wisconsin See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin Lake Superior 
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