Mission Point Lighthouse, Lake Michigan
September 2, 2006
Mission Point Lighthouse, Lake Michigan, photo by JSE_Imaging.
Speaking from experience, I have to say that the Old Mission light is one of the hardest to take a picture of. Probably all that fencing.
The lighthouse was established on March 3, 1859 and sits at the tip of Old Mission peninsula (the eastern peninsula that forms Grand Traverse Bay). Lighthouse guru Terry Pepper has a page on the Mission Point Lighthouse that includes an account of the taking of lands around the light from the Ottawa.
Wikipedia’s Mission Point Lighthouse entry is pretty limited, but it does have a link to an article that says the Old Mission light was a twin to the now destroyedMama Juda Lighthouse in the Detroit River (a/k/a Mamajuda).
