Saugatuck Michgan Historical Lighthouse
by Kathi Mirto
Title
Saugatuck Michgan Historical Lighthouse
Artist
Kathi Mirto
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This bright red landmark is a scale replica built in 2002 of the former Saugatuck Lighthouse. The original lighthouse was also known as the Kalamazoo River Light from where it overlooked near the entrance to Lake Michigan. Today the replica sits along the shore of Kalamazoo Lake in Saugatuck, Michigan near where the ole tug sits in port.
This lighthouse is modeled after the second lighthouse which guided boats off Lake Michigan and up the Kalamazoo River. Built in 1859, it replaced the one built twenty years earlier that was too close to the river and threatened by erosion. The new one was built further away from the water on top of a sand dune.
By 1876, the new light served as home for a new keeper now tending a new light at the end of a pier into Lake Michigan. The old house held its ground until a tornado in 1956 destroyed it.
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August 18th, 2019
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Comments (25)
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit!
Laurie Search
That's such an adorable little lighthouse, and I love your color and composition!!!! :)))vf
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of the FAA Artist Group No Place Like Home, 9/03/2019! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits!
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
John Bartelt
Great shot and composition, Kathi! The chain in foreground definitely adds to the nautical ambiance of this image! l/f