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Old Mission Point
State: MI
Year established: 1870
Latitude: 44 deg 59
min 29 sec N
Longitude: 85 deg 28
min 46 sec W
Height above sea level: 36 feet Original construction:
current 36-foot wooden tower capped with a 10-sided cast-iron lantern on the lakeward gable end of a 1 ½-story wooden residence
Status:
deactivated in 1933
Notes:
purchased by the State of Michigan after WW II as part of park
More information:
 http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/michigan/oldmission/oldmission.htm
http://www.ipl.org.ar/exhibit/light/GL/OldMission.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/mission.htm
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 136
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