Seul Choix Point Lighthouse is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on September 8th, 2016.
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse
The Seul Choix Pointe Lighthouse is located in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula, in the town of Gulliver, Michigan. The lighthouse is said to be... more
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Seul Choix Point Lighthouse
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Phyllis Taylor
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Photograph - Photography
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The Seul Choix Pointe Lighthouse is located in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula, in the town of Gulliver, Michigan. The lighthouse is said to be haunted.
Visitors and workers at the lighthouse complex have reported strange happenings, including moved silverware and other items, footsteps, the strong smell of cigars and the sound of someone climbing the lighthouse steps. Many believe that a lighthouse keeper is still at work.
Seul Choix (pronounced Sis-shwa) Point Light marks a small harbor on Lake Michigan located on the south shore of the Upper Peninsula. Some sixty miles west of the Straits, the name means "only choice".
Native Americans and French fur traders traveled in canoes across the rough waters of Lake Michigan. It was named by the French who found that it was the only harbor of refuge in this part of Lake Michigan. If boats were headed for the Straits of Mackinac, the only choice for safety was Seul Choix.
During the mid-1800's Seul Choix Point was the center of a thriving fishing community, but today, only the lighthouse complex is still active. The light still operates, but with an automated replacement for its original lens. The light was placed into service in 1892, but the tower had to be rebuilt and the station was not entirely completed until September, 1895.
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September 8th, 2016
