H Donn de Yampert was recently on the eastern end of the U.P. capturing these photos of the Whitefish Point Light Station near Paradise, MI. Check out the bottom photo, looks like someone may have been watching Donn that day!

Whitefish Point on the eastern end of the U.P., going west to Munising, is 80 miles of Superior shoreline known as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast. This life-saving beacon for mariners was established by Congress in 1849, and has been lighting up these dangerous waters continuously since then. The present light tower was built in 1861, the year the Civil War began during Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency. There are 550 known major shipwrecks on the bottom of the lake and approximately 200 of them are in the area of Whitefish Point. The most famous being the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, lying just 15 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, in which 29 men lost their lives. The chief cause of these shipwrecks are from the stress of weather and collisions.

In 1973, this Light Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1980, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society was contacted by Whitefish Township to help in preserving this historic property. They obtained a license from the Coast Guard in 1983 to begin museum operations and then opened their first exhibits in 1985. The present Museum Building on the campus was opened in 1987. Then in October of 1996, an Act of Congress legislatively transferred the site to the Shipwreck Society’s full ownership. (Information obtained from: ShipwreckMuseum.Com-Whitefish Point Light

Alexis Dahl takes a look at the Marquette Ore Docks and how to ship 800 billion pounds of rocks. Her lead-in to the video says: “In 1912, a steampunk-looking structure was built in Marquette, Michigan's Upper Harbor. More than a century later, it's still there — and still working. But what is this thing? Thanks to Consensus for supporting this video!”

Wow...is that set up like that in the lighthouse,
to look like someone is looking at you? That looks
like a clown face to me. Freaky for sure.

Alexis's videos are the best!

A historical set today.
The pic entitled; “Figure in the Window?”
is an intriguing one. Even when I
zoom in I can’t tell who (or what???)
it is.
And another nice video made interesting
by Alexis. She always has a good delivery.

Beautiful! When I see these, I
think of Brenda Leigh and how she
loved getting out there to take
pictures of that place and the
surrounding area. Really nice set.
Love the person in the window.