Throughout its recorded history, blowing, drifting sand has constantly extended Tawas Point. This lighthouse was built in 1876 because the end of the point had moved so far from the original 1853 tower. Workers used stone and bricks from the abandoned lighthouse to fill wooden cribs protecting the new lighthouse, then at the very tip of the point, from Lake Huron's waves. By 1898, the new light was no longer exposed, but entirely surrounded with made land. The Tawas Point light shines with two colors: its white light can be seen 16 miles out in Lake Huron, and its red light, marking the entrance to Tawas Bay, can be seen twelve miles away. In 2002, the U.S. Coast Guard transferred the lighthouse building to the State of Michigan.