Little Sable Point Light
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The Little Sable Point Light is a lighthouse located south of Pentwater in the lower peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.[13][14][15][16] It is in the southwest corner of Golden Township, just south of Silver Lake State Park.
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Location | Ten miles south of Pentwater, Michigan on Lake Michigan, Little Sable Point, Golden Township, Michigan |
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Coordinates | 43°39′6″N 86°32′20″W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1874 |
Foundation | 109 wooden piles, driven into sand[1] |
Construction | Rust brick, Italianate bracketing |
Automated | 1955[2] |
Height | 107 feet (33 m)[3] |
Shape | Frustum of a cone |
Markings | Red brick, natural (orig. white), black trim and lantern[4][5] |
Heritage | National Register of Historic Places listed place |
Light | |
First lit | 1874[2] |
Deactivated | 2014 |
Focal height | 115 feet (35 m)[6] |
Lens | Third-Order Fresnel lens[7][8] |
Intensity | 40,000 candlepower[9] |
Range | 15 nautical miles; 27 kilometres (17 mi)[citation needed] |
Characteristic | Flashing white, 1 flash every 6 sec.[10][11] |
Little Sable Point Light Station (U.S. Coast Guard Light Station/Great Lakes) | |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Architect | Col. Orlando M. Poe |
Architectural style | Italianate bracketing |
MPS | U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR |
NRHP reference No. | 84001827[12] |
Added to NRHP | July 19, 1984 |
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The lighthouse was designed by Col. Orlando M. Poe and has been described as "a classic Poe tower."[16][17] The design used 109 1-foot-diameter wood pilings[18] driven into the sand, capped by 12 feet of stone as a stout base for the brick tower. The walls of the tower are 5 feet (1.5 m) thick at the base and 2 feet (0.61 m) at its zenith.[19]