- Manitowoc Breakwater Light
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Manitowoc Breakwater Light 
Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse Location Manitowoc, Wisconsin Coordinates 44°05′34″N 87°38′37″W / 44.09278°N 87.64361°WCoordinates: 44°05′34″N 87°38′37″W / 44.09278°N 87.64361°W Year first lit 1918 Automated 1971 Foundation Pier Construction Steel Tower shape Cylindrical on square fog signaling building Height 40 feet (12 m) Original lens Fourth order Fresnel lens Range 15 statute miles (24 km) Characteristic White, Isophase, 6 sec The Manitowoc Breakwater lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Manitowoc in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
Located on the north breakwater at the entrance of Manitowoc harbor.
USCG archive photo
Specialized additional 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) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
- Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm.
- Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0923568476; ISBN 978-0923568474.
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.
External links
- Seeing the light
- Lighthouse friends article
- NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
- Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/wi.htm.
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHWI.asp.
- (PDF) Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes. Light List. United States Coast Guard. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList%20V7.pdf.
Lighthouses of Wisconsin See also: List of lighthouses in WisconsinLake Superior 
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- Buildings and structures in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
- Visitor attractions in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
- Wisconsin stubs
- United States lighthouse stubs
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