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Belle Isle
State: MI
Year established: 1882
Latitude: 42 deg 20
min 27 sec N
Longitude: 82 deg 57
min 35 sec W
Height above sea level: 43 feet Original construction:
43-foot red square brick tower attached to dwelling Rebuilds:
 1943: Lighthouse demolished and replaced by "Belle Isle Lifeboat Station", constructed from 1939 -1942
Status:
no longer in existence
Notes:
The "Lifeboat Station" watch tower was taken down, and in the 1950s a light was put up to mark the building site. Information was provided in part by John Polacsek, Curator for Marine History at the Detroit Historical Society.
More information:
http://www.lhdigest.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=2817
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/recreation/centers/M/belle_isle/history2.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/STATIONS/BELLE_ISLE.html
U.S. Treasury Department Lighthouse Board,List of Beacons, Buoys, and Day Marks of the United States on the Northern Lakes and Rivers, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1898)
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