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    Spectacle Reef Light is a lighthouse 11 miles (18 km) east of the Straits of Mackinac and is located at the northern end of Lake Huron, Michigan. It was...
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    Light is a lighthouse located on a reef that was the most serious hazard to navigation on Lake Superior. The exposed crib of the Stannard Rock Light is...
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    lighthouses are Split Rock Light on Lake Superior, St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron, Marblehead Light (Ohio) on Lake Erie...
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    unevenly into the earth as was the case with the Detroit River Light. The Spectacle Reef Light is an example of this type of structure. Water crib "History...
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    achievements." Prominently featured was "the engineering marvel" of Spectacle Reef Light and a 111-foot-tall (34 m) skeletal cast iron lighthouse tower. Also...
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    marvel" of Spectacle Reef Light and a 111-foot-tall (34 m) skeletal cast iron lighthouse tower (reassembled as the Waackaack Rear Range Light off the shore...
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    lighthouses are Split Rock Light on Lake Superior, St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron, Marblehead Light (Ohio) on Lake Erie...
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    Point Light (1874) on Lake Michigan; Seul Choix Light (1895) in Manistique, Michigan; and Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron. As superintending engineer, he...
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    Isle Light South Manitou Island Light Au Sable Light Outer Island Light Little Sable Point Light Spectacle Reef Light Wind Point Light Seul Choix Light Until...
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    spill MS Riverdance MV World Discoverer Rena grounding and oil spill Spectacle Reef Light SS American Star SS Torrey Canyon SS Suevic Mazaheri, A., Montewka...
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    Michigan, and Seul Choix Light near Manistique, Michigan which was completed in 1895; and his crowning achievement, Spectacle Reef Light. Others consider his...
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  • October 22, 2008. "Inventory of Historic Lighthouses--Michigan-- Spectacle Reef Light". National Park Service. Archived from the original on July 4, 2007...
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    for $152,000, almost as much as Spectacle Reef Light, the most expensive lighthouse on the Great Lakes. The Toledo light was first illuminated on May 23...
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    side altars, reputedly originate from the 1893 Columbian Exposition Spectacle Reef Light World's Largest Stove World's Largest Cedar Bucket Fairy lamp, candle...
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    lighthouses were Split Rock Light on Lake Superior, St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron, and Marblehead Light on Lake Erie. "National...
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    Waugoshance Light (1851), and demonstrated a "new level of expertise" in constructing of the Spectacle Reef Light (1874), Stannard Rock Light (1882) and...
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    the builders of Spectacle Reef Light, White Shoal Light, and Waugoshance Light, thereby achieving real savings and efficiency. This light (and its predecessor)...
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    Lighthouse on Lake Superior. He also helped design and build the Spectacle Reef Light with Colonel Orlando M. Poe. Transferred to Philadelphia, he was...
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    Waugoshance Light (1851), and demonstrated a "new level of expertise" in constructing of the Spectacle Reef Light (1874), Stannard Rock Light (1882) and...
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    (1874) on Lake Michigan, Manistique, Michigan's Seul Choix Light (1895) and Spectacle Reef Light. The tower is a white brick conical tower with a black lantern...
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  • across the street. Replaced with pole light. Tower moved to Sault Ste. Marie Coast Guard station. Replaced with light on metal tower. Lighthouse is privately...
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    Isle Light, Passage Island Light, Port Austin Reef Light, Seul Choix Light, Spectacle Reef Light, and Stannard Rock Light. She also repaired or improved...
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    given the then astounding figures he would expend on building the Spectacle Reef Light. (Poe was also the chief engineer on General William Tecumseh Sherman's...
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    The Grays Reef Light is a lighthouse located in northeastern Lake Michigan, 3.8 miles (6.1 km) west of Waugoshance Island in Bliss Township, Michigan....
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    The St. Martin Reef Light is a twin of this first light station. However, as early as 1867, only eleven years after the first light went into operation...
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    Spectacle Reef Light Station...
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    beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface, which during the day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light. The vessel...
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    (Lake Michigan) Light: ARLHS USA-428". Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society. Retrieved June 9, 2012. "Grays Reef Light". Seeing The Light. Retrieved April...
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    The Ludington Light is a 57-foot (17 m) tall steel-plated lighthouse in Ludington, Michigan, which lies along the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, at...
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    Calumet. The replacement light would not be built until 1917 and after at least ten vessels had been lost on the nearby Sawtooth Reef. The Eagle River Lighthouse...
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