The Ashland Harbor Breakwater lighthouse, also known as Ashland Breakwater Lighthouse, is an operational lighthouse located near Ashland in Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA. Located in Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior, it is owned and managed by the National Park Service, and is a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. It sits at the end of a long and detached breakwater, which creates an artificial harbor.
A lighthouse keeper's quarters and a boathouse, constructed in 1916, are located about from the light. There are additional living quarters on the second and third stories of the lighthouse.
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Further reading
- Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
- Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) .
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) .
External links
- Aerial photos of Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, Marina.com.
- Anderson, Kraig, Lighthouse friends, Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light article
- Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light.
- Wobser, David, Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, Great Laker magazine , boatnerd.com