The Two-Hearted River Life Saving Station stood here after its construction in 1876. Like many Great Lakes stations, it was a second-class station built at a cost of $4,790 and manned by volunteer crews. The simple two-story building, with a small lookout tower, housed a lifeboat and other equipment needed to recover endangered sailors, and an average crew consisted of six to eight experienced surfmen. Several shipwrecks occurred near the mouth of the Two-Hearted River, also called the Twin River and the Big Two-Hearted River, including the Cleveland in 1864, the W. W. Arnold in 1869, and the Sumatra in 1875. After the station was built in 1876, its lifesavers carried out brave rescues in the Satellite disaster of 1879 and the Phineas S. Marsh disaster of 1896. In 1915 the Life Saving Service became part of the U.S. Coast Guard. The station was decommissioned in the 1930s, and the structure was razed in 1944.