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La Pointe Light stands on Long Island in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands on Lake Superior near Bayfield as part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Its history begins in 1858, when a square wooden tower was built about 3,000 feet west of the present light to help guide transportation on the lake; that earlier lighthouse’s lens was moved to Chequamegon Point Lighthouse in 1897. The current light is one of the oldest skeletal lighthouses on the Great Lakes and reflects the long effort to make Lake Superior shipping safer despite distance, fog, and severe weather. Its significance was recognized by listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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Washburn, Wisconsin · United States