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Presque Isle Lighthouse
By Cosmos Mariner, August 26, 2013
The Loneliest Place on Earth Marker (wide view)
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“The loneliest place on earth” is how Charles Waldo, the first keeper of the Presque Isle Lighthouse, described his 7 year tenure at the station.
Waldo lived at the lighthouse with his family when, on July 12, 1873 he wrote: . . . — — Map (db m129980) HM |
| | In the early 19th Century the Great Lakes provided the single most important transportation system in the country. Throughout the lakes, mariners depended heavily on lighthouses to warn of hazards to navigation and to mark major land features.
A . . . — — Map (db m129989) HM |
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The final lighthouse design incorporated bricks five-courses thick to withstand the severe cold and winds off the lake. Overall, the structure cost $15,000.
Construction began in September, 1872 and was completed by the following July. . . . — — Map (db m129990) HM |
| | For more than fifty years a narrow pathway served as the keeper’s primary link to civilization. Sand and dirt at first, and then paved in 1925, the current “sidewalk trail” led the keeper to his boathouse on Misery Bay for the second leg . . . — — Map (db m129991) HM |
May. 24, 2024
