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The Grosse Point Light

Melinda@melinda010100 (80)712d

The Lady Elgin sank after colliding with the lumber schooner Augusta in Lake Michigan in 1860. The shipwreck was the most deadly in all of Great Lakes history.

Though the exact number of victims is unknown, it is estimated there were around 400 people on board, on their way to Milwaukee after a visit to Chicago and there were only about 98 survivor's.

The wreck was discovered in 1989 lying in 50-60 feet of water. The site has been cataloged by the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but treasure hunters have stripped the site of artifacts.

. Long before marine radios, lighthouses were the only means to safely navigate the harbors, many of which were rocky.

Following the sinking of the Lady Elgin, and several shipping disasters near Evanston, Illinois residents successfully lobbied the federal government for a lighthouse.

On March 1st, 1874 the beam of light from the Fresnel lens in the Grosse Point Lighthouse could be seen up to 20 miles over the lake in clear conditions and it served both to warn ships of shallow waters around the point and to guide the way into the Port of Chicago

The Great Lakes have been home to 379 lighthouses, 102 of which are found on Lake Michigan The drive around the Lake is roughly 1100 miles. If you didn't stop at all to see lighthouses it would take you 15 hours.

Light House Beach

The Harley Clarke Mansion house is adjacent to the historic Grosse Pointe Light and Lighthouse Beach on Lake Michigan is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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  • @thebighigg(78)· 711d

    I love lighthouses! I don't love climbing to the top of them, made that mistake once... They are great parts of history. Interesting history on the wreck, at 50 to 60 feet deep I can see why it was stripped so easily. That's a pretty shallow dive. !BBH

  • @steven-patrick(74)· 711d

    Nice photos 👍 I like the shot of the light house behind what I presume was the keepers house - looks like the light house is part of the house. I like the beach shot also. Here's a little known fact about me that even you probably don't know. I worked in real estate for awhile. I thought of it because I had lunch in Grosse Point once on a trip to Detroit.

  • @lhes(74)· 711d

    Ah yes light houses were a huge help back then. We also had some in our province since it was an island.

    Though served only as tourist attractions by now.

  • @edith-4angelseu(68)· 711d

    I guess the existence of the lighthouses prevented such tragic incidents.

  • @miprimerconcurso(72)· 712d

    Hello lady @melinda010100 What a beautiful lighthouse, I'm a fan of lighthouses, we have a very old one in the city What beautiful photographs

  • @hafiz34(70)· 712d

    It's nice to know the background history of the construction of the lighthouse. Wasn't there an accident afternoon building the lighthouse?

  • @mbracho(60)· 712d

    Great article and beautiful photographys!

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  • @dantrin(64)· 712d

    Interesting is there some documentary about this?

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  • @xplosive(72)· 712d

    This lighthouse probably has one of the darkest background stories amongst all of the lighthouses.

    It looks as if it would have been taken from a horror/thriller movie. But they often say that the reality is darker than any horror/thriller movie.

    By the way, I still have not saw any lighthouses in my life so far.

    There are no lighthouses in my home country (in Hungary) at all.

    Currently I live on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. There are lighthouses on this island, but I have not seen them so far.

    Maybe I will see at least one in the near (or distant) future.

    We will see.

  • @osomar357(72)· 712d

    Hi @melinda010100, very nice photos. When I saw the house with the lighthouse at the back, I thought it was the keeper's house, and I was going to ask about it, as most of the lighthouse keepers' houses look small in the photos. Then I read below that you said it was a mansion and that it is part of the historical heritage. You learn something new every day, the pictures are really nice.

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  • @stuartcturnbull(67)· 712d

    I'm drawing a blank on this lighthouse for some reason...

    No, great article, thanks for the info

  • @pedrobrito2004(71)· 712d

    It struck me that whenever I think of lighthouses, I think of the sea coast. So having a lighthouse on a lake is something I hadn't thought of.

    Where I live, there are no big lakes, so I thought it was interesting that there was a lake that needed a lighthouse, although it is true that it is always good to have a guide to recognize dangerous places on the coast, whether they are rocks or shallow waters.

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