Lighthouses of Lake Michigan

41 Kenosha (Southport) (WI 45)
August 2, 2003
latitude 42º 35' 22.2" N
longitude 87º 48' 57.6" W

At the time this lighthouse was built in 1866, this place was known as Southport.  It was the first light a boat from Chicago would see in Wisconsin and was originally equipped with a 4th order Fresnel lens (which if you remember, is not really a lens, but a whole cluster of prisms that act like a single lens).

Kenosha  
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