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Brush Point Rear Range Light Station

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Purchase. An irregular strip being a part of S from 1/2, SE1/4, Sec. 17, T47N, R1W, Mich Mer.

10/30/1885

8.5 acres

None.

Swamp muck, underlaid by sand.

Front tower 25 feet.

None.

Boat landing at boathouse.

Board walk to boathouse from dwelling.

By boat. A foot path, poorly cut out & wet, leads from rear tower back through reservation about 1000 ft. to high ground where it joins a road to Sault Ste. Marie.

4 miles to Algonguin by water. 6 miles to Sault Ste. Marie by road 1.2 mile in rear of
station.

4 miles to Algonquin by water.

Algonquin is part of Sault Ste. Marie & is connected by carline & railway.

None.

By boat or rig from Sault Ste. Marie. If by rig, can get only within 1/2 mile of station thence by poor footpath.

tower

1887

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