Site:

 

Date of reservation:

 

Date of deed:

 

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Area of the entire site:

 

Area inclosed:

 

Character of surface soil:

 

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Inclosures to premises / type of fence:

 

 

Wharf or landing on premises:

 

Road to landing or wharf character of and distance:

 

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Distance to nearest road:

 

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Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Point Iroquois Light Station - 1909

Premises page 1 of 2

Reservation, Lot 4, Sec.12, T47 N, R 3W, Mich. meridian.

 

03/13/1854

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

54.85 acres

 

About 1/2 acre (18720 sq. ft.) around dwelling. About 3 acres cultivated.

 

Sandy loam, gravel & stone.

 


200'

 


Barbed ribbon wire fence with top soil incloses dwelling, tower, oil house & privy. Inclosures 126' x 145'. A netting wire fence incloses garden & a plain wire fence incloses 2 acres of cultivated clearing.

 

Small boat landing.

 


2' board walk leads from fog signal to landing. Concrete walk dwelling to fog signal.

 

By boat, or by rig from Bay Mills or from Sault Ste. Marie; or by rail SSS & A RR from Sault Ste. Marie to Brimley, thence to Pt. Iroquois via Bay Mills by rig. Roads sandy.

 

4 miles to RR station at Bay Mills. 15 miles by water to Sault Ste. Marie

 

4 miles to Bay Mills, 7 miles to Brimley.

 

4 miles to Bay Mills, 7 miles to Brimley.

 

None

 

By rig or boat from Bay Mills, 4 miles; or by boat from Sault Ste. Marie, 15 miles.

 

tower

 

1

 

1855

 

1871. Dwelling remodeled 1902.

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Fog Signal General | Fog Signal Equipment | Dwelling | Asst. Keepers Dwellings | Water | Healthfulness

 

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