Copper Harbor Lighthouse is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on September 6th, 2016.
Copper Harbor Lighthouse
We were very lucky to arrive at Copper Harbor Lighthouse as the sun was giving a beautiful display of light across the area.... more
Title
Copper Harbor Lighthouse
Artist
Phyllis Taylor
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
We were very lucky to arrive at Copper Harbor Lighthouse as the sun was giving a beautiful display of light across the area.
On March 3, 1847, Congress appropriated $5,000 for a lighthouse at Copper Harbor, and after competitive bidding, a contract was awarded to Charles Rude for its construction. Work began in August 1848 on a forty-four-foot-tall stone tower, which tapered from a diameter of thirteen feet to eight-and-a-half feet, along with a one-and-a-half-story dwelling that measured thirty-four by twenty feet and had an attached kitchen. Located on Hays Point, Copper Harbor Lighthouse commenced operation in the spring of 1849 and was just the second lighthouse to be activated on Lake Superior. Completion of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal in 1855 triggered an explosion of new lighthouses on the largest of the Great Lakes, and by 1860, over a dozen lights marked the south shore.
No longer needed, Copper Harbor Lighthouse was leased in 1927 to Roger T. Vaughan, a Chicago-area physician, who used it as a summer residence for roughly two decades. As servicing the light in the attached tower was seen as obtrusive, a sixty-two-foot-tall skeletal tower was erected near the lighthouse in 1933 and equipped with an acetylene light that displayed a white flash every five seconds. The light was converted to electricity in 1937.
Uploaded
September 6th, 2016
Statistics
Viewed 1,301 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 03/26/2024 at 9:38 PM
Colors
Embed
Share