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Little Sable
State: MI
Year established: 1874
Latitude: 43 deg 39
min 5 sec N
Longitude: 86 deg 32
min 22 sec W
Height above sea level: 108 feet Original construction:
current 107-foot tall conical brick lighthouse Rebuilds:
 1900: tower painted white
1977: white paint removed to reduce maintenance costs
Status:
automated in 1955; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 6 seconds, visible for 17 nautical miles
More information:
http://www.lighthousedepot.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=614
http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/michigan/littlesable/littlesable.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/littlesa.htm
Roberts, Bruce and Jones, Ray, Great Lakes Lighthouses Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, (Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1994) p. 86
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 134
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River above the St. Regis River, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 184
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