Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes
Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes

Author: Linda Osborne Cynowa

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 146710826X

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"Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes explores many of the lighthouses and pier, reef, and breakwater lights in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Many of these lights were photographed at the turn of the century for use as postcards. Whether it be Fort Niagara Lighthouse in New York or Split Rock Lighthouse in Minnesota, then as now, people have loved to visit the lights while on holiday and send the postcards home to loved ones. Many of these important navigational aids are still in existence and can be visited thanks to the historical societies and associations that maintain them."--Back cover.

Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast
Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast

Author: David Pinyerd

Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

Published: 2007-06

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781531630294

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The Oregon Coast has been the site of shipwrecks even before Lewis and Clark's arrival in 1805. Even as the population grew, the federal government let the Oregon Coast go unguarded by lighthouses and lifesavers for decades. Economic and political pressures finally forced the government to build the first Oregon lighthouse in 1857 at the Umpqua River. The LifeSaving Service followed in 1878 with a station at the mouth of Coos Bay. Eventually, most of the harbor entrances and headlands were protected by both the Lighthouse Service and the LifeSaving Service, the precursor to today's Coast Guard. Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Oregon Coast commemorates the true heroes who served to warn, protect, and rescue those who went to sea.

Lighthouses of the Great Lakes
Lighthouses of the Great Lakes

Author: Ray Jones

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-05-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1493047310

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Lighthouses of the Great Lakes combines the fascinating history and lore of approximately forty-one lighthouses with stunning color and black-and-white photographs. Focusing on the lighthouses of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, this beautifully illustrated book provides stirring descriptions of the lighthouses as well as directions and details on visiting these memorable Great Lakes landmarks.

Keepers of the Light
Keepers of the Light

Author: Donald Graham

Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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A BC classic hailed by the Vancouver Sun as A moving, very human story.

Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes
Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes

Author: Dianna Higgs Stampfler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-02-21

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1439674531

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The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes. Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains found weeks later. A newly hired and some say depressed keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County slit his own throat after a consultation with a local butcher about the location of the jugular vein. A smallpox outbreak in the late 1890s led to the tragic death of a lighthouse hired hand on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Join author Dianna Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.

The U.S. Life-Saving Service
The U.S. Life-Saving Service

Author: Ralph C. Shanks

Publisher: Costano Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780930268169

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Subtitled Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard, this very complete record of the people, technology, architecture and exploits of the U.S. Life-Saving Service is a large-format book illustrated with 446 photographs and maps. It is especially strong on the wonderful and regionally varied architecture of the Service's stations, of which there were more than today's mariners or beachcombers can imagine -- 41 on the New Jersey coast, 31 on Lake Michigan, 13 on Cape Cod alone. In the last half of the nineteenth century, when coasting vessels numbered in the tens of thousands, the stations and their beach patrols were a necessity, and the surfmen managed dramatic rescues, many of which are recounted here.

Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses
Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses

Author: Dianna Stampfler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 143966630X

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Travel Michigan’s coast—and into the state’s history—with otherworldly tales of the spirits of those who sought to keep its waters safe. Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 dotting its expansive Great Lakes shoreline. Many of these lighthouses lay claim to haunted happenings. Former keepers like the cigar-smoking Captain Townshend at Seul Choix Point and prankster John Herman at Waugoshance Shoal near Mackinaw City maintain their watch long after death ended their duties. At White River Light Station in Whitehall, Sarah Robinson still keeps a clean and tidy house, and a mysterious young girl at the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse seeks out other children and female companions. Countless spirits remain between Whitefish Point and Point Iroquois in an area well known for its many tragic shipwrecks. Join author and Promote Michigan founder Dianna Stampfler as she recounts the tales from Michigan’s ghostly beacons. “Haunting tales of Michigan’s lighthouses . . . Her stories come from lighthouse museums, friends and family.”—Great Lakes Echo

Lost in Michigan
Lost in Michigan

Author: Mike Sonnenberg

Publisher: Huron Photo

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9780999433201

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Based on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.