Crisp Point Light stands on a remote stretch of Lake Superior shore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where a U.S. Life-Saving Service station was established in 1876 to aid vessels along the dangerous coast later called the Shipwreck Coast. After years of proposals, the lighthouse was approved in 1902 and first lit in 1904. Its history is closely tied to the perils of these waters, including the disappearance of the D. M. Clemson, losses during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, and the later sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald offshore. Erosion and neglect nearly destroyed the site, but stabilization and restoration returned the lighthouse to service, and its beacon has operated seasonally since 2013.