Bright Lights, Dark Nights

by Wright, Larry; Wright, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9781550463125
• ISBN10: 1550463128
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Boston Mills Pr

Summary

This sequel to our enormously popular Bonfires and Beacons features 45 more lighthouses on Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior, on both sides of the American-Canadian border. The rugged rocks and vast forests of the Great Lakes region drove early settlers and merchants to develop elaborate shipping networks. As we drive along their shores today, these lakes may appear easy to navigate, but swift currents, hidden reefs and shoals, shifting sandbars, uncharted passages and fierce, fast-moving storms made early navigation a mariner's nightmare. Remarkable stone, brick and wood lighthouses were erected to light the night and safely guide lakefarers in their schooners, steamers, brigs, barques and sloops. Any of these noble structures have fallen into disrepair or have been torn down in the name of progress, but the surviving lights have become monuments to an exciting period in our history and points of pilgrimage for millions.So to night-wandering sailors pale with fear Wide o'er the watery waste a light appears Which on the far-seen mountain blazing high Streams the lonely watchtower to the sky - Homer, The Iliad, 750 BC

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	7	(4)
Lake Ontario	11	(16)
Crossover Island, NEW YORK	11	(2)
Sister Island, NEW YORK	13	(2)
Selkirk, NEW YORK	15	(2)
Charlotte/Genesee, NEW YORK	17	(2)
Fort Niagara, NEW YORK	19	(2)
Queen's Wharf, ONTARIO	21	(2)
Main Duck Island, ONTARIO	23	(2)
Nine Mile Point, ONTARIO	25	(2)
Lake Erie	27	(16)
Buffalo, NEW YORK	27	(2)
Barcelona, PENNSYLVANIA	29	(2)
Presque Isle, PENNSYLVANIA	31	(2)
Ashtabula, OHIO	33	(2)
Lorain, OHIO	35	(2)
Pelee Island, ONTARIO	37	(2)
Old Long Point Cut, ONTARIO	39	(2)
Mohawk Island, ONTARIO	41	(2)
Lake Huron	43	(20)
Goderich, ONTARIO	43	(2)
Chantry Island, ONTARIO	45	(2)
Cabot Head, ONTARIO	47	(2)
Brebeuf Island, ONTARIO	49	(2)
Pointe au Baril, ONTARIO	51	(2)
Shoal Island, ONTARIO	53	(2)
Round Island, MICHIGAN	55	(2)
Sturgeon Point, MICHIGAN	57	(2)
Point aux Barques, MICHIGAN	59	(2)
Fort Gratiot, MICHIGAN	61	(2)
Lake Michigan	63	(12)
St. Helena Island, MICHIGAN	63	(2)
Ludington North Pierhead, MICHIGAN	65	(2)
Old Michigan City, INDIANA	67	(2)
Grosse Point, ILLINOIS	69	(2)
North Point, WISCONSIN	71	(2)
Sherwood Point, MICHIGAN	73	(2)
Lake Superior	75	(21)
Crisp Point, MICHIGAN	75	(2)
Marquette Harbor, MICHIGAN	77	(2)
Big Bay Point, MICHIGAN	79	(2)
Mendota, MICHIGAN	81	(2)
Sand Island, WISCONSIN	83	(2)
Duluth Harbor, MINNESOTA	85	(2)
Rock of Ages, MICHIGAN	87	(2)
Battle Island, ONTARIO	89	(2)
Slate Islands, ONTARIO	91	(2)
Davieaux Island, ONTARIO	93	(2)
Caribou Island, ONTARIO	95	(1)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	96