Peninsula Point Lighthouse helped guide ships around a reef more than two miles into Lake Michigan. Today, the lighthouse is one of Michigan's best places to witness the monarch butterfly migration.
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A lighthouse tower from Georgia may be odd in Lake Michigan, but that is what is at South Fox Island in 1934. The lighthouse from Sapelo Island, became one of Michigan's most unusual lighthouses.
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Did you know the waters around Naubinway Reef can be as shallow as four feet deep? The Naubinway Island Light was established in 1931 to help mariners avoid this hidden hazard and safely reach Naubinway Harbor.
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For 106 years, Point Betsie Lighthouse was manned, in 1983 it was automated. Point Betsie was the last manned lighthouse on Lake Michigan and final Michigan lighthouse to lose its resident keeper.
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