Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light

Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light


Location	Ashland, Wisconsin
Coordinates	46°37′42″N 90°52′12″W / 46.62833°N 90.87000°W / 46.62833; -90.87000Coordinates: 46°37′42″N 90°52′12″W / 46.62833°N 90.87000°W / 46.62833; -90.87000
Year first constructed	1915
Year first lit	1915
Foundation	Concrete pier
Construction	Reinforced concrete / steel
Tower shape	Cylindrical watch room on octagonal pyramid tower^[1]
Markings / pattern	white with red cap on lantern
Height	58 feet (18 m)^[2]
Focal height	65 feet (20 m)^[3]
Original lens	Fourth order Fresnel lens
Current lens	9.8-inch (250 mm) acrylic plastic lens solar powered^[1]
Range	9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi)^[4]
Characteristic	White, Flashing, 6 sec^[4]
ARLHS number	USA-019^[5]^[6]
USCG number	7-15310

Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Ashland, Wisconsin
Area	less than one acre
MPS	Light Stations of the United States MPS
NRHP Reference #	07000103^[7]
Added to NRHP	March 1, 2007

The Ashland Harbor Breakwater lighthouse, also known as Ashland Breakwater Lighthouse, is an operational lighthouse located near Ashland in Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA.^[8] Located in Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior, it is owned and managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.^[9] It sits at the end of a long and detached breakwater, which creates an artificial harbor.^[10]

A lighthouse keeper's quarters and a boathouse, constructed in 1916, are located about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the light. There are additional living quarters on the second and third stories of the lighthouse.^[9]

Gallery

Ashland Lighthouse
2008 Lightkeepers house
2008 Boathouse

References

1 2 National Park Service, Maritime History Project, Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin - Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light.
↑ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Tower Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com.
↑ Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". Archived from the original on 2008-01-30.
1 2 Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
↑ Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, Ashland Harbor Breakwater (Lake Superior) Light ARLHS USA-019.
↑ Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, World List of Lights (WLOL).
↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Ashland Wisconsin website.
1 2 "Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light". Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Wisconsin Lighthouses. National Park Service. 2006.
↑ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Northern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Specialized Additional reading

Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". Archived from the original on 2008-01-30.
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

Aerial photos of Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, Marina.com.
Anderson, Kraig, Lighthouse friends, Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light article
Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light.
Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
Wobser, David, Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, Great Laker magazine, boatnerd.com

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See also: List of lighthouses in Wisconsin

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