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Big Sable
State: MI
Year established: 1867
Latitude: 44 deg 3
min 28 sec N
Longitude: 86 deg 30
min 52 sec W
Height above sea level: 106 feet Original construction:
Conical tower of soft yellow brick Rebuilds:
 1900: current 107-foot white conical tower, brick encased in steel plates, with top and middle third black
Status:
electrified in 1949; automated in 1968; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
fixed white, visible for 15 nautical miles
More information:
http://www.lhdigest.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=176
http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/michigan/bigsable/bigsable.htm\
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/bigsable.htm\
U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Cultural Resources with Candace Clifford as Project Manager. Inventory of Historic Light Stations, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1994), p. 167
Roberts, Bruce and Jones, Ray, Great Lakes Lighthouses Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, (Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1994) p. 85
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 130
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. 183
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