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Grand Haven South Pierhead (Inner Light)
State: MI
Year established: 1839
Latitude: 43 deg 3
min 25 sec N
Longitude: 86 deg 15
min 14 sec W
Height above sea level: 52 feet Original construction:
Grand River Light on the south side of the river. Rebuilds:
 1871: a red tower was placed at the end of the south pier to display a
pierhead signal
1905: current 51-foot red cylindrical cast-iron tower
Status:
automated in 1969; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
Occulting red every 4 seconds (alternating 2 seconds red and 2 seconds dark) visible for 4 nautical miles; fog signal (separate building at outer light) 2 blasts every 30 seconds
Notes:
Information for this light was also provided by Jeanette Weiden, Assistant Curator of Collections for the Tri-Cities Historical Museum
More information:
http://www.lighthousedepot.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=618
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/grhavens.htm
http://lighthouse.boatnerd.com/gallery/Michigan/grandhaven.htm
Hyde, Charles K., The Northern Lights Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1995), pp. 123-124
Roberts, Bruce and Jones, Ray, Great Lakes Lighthouses Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, (Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1994) p. 74
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), p. 132
U.S. Lighthouse Board, List of Lights, Buoys, and Daymarks of the United States on the Northern Lakes and Rivers, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1898 &1908)
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