Maps
Please note that the maps and plans below are
not intended for navigational or constructional use.
There are no scales given, because the actual
size of these maps depends on the size of your monitor.
Please
refer to the scale rulers to get a clue of distances.
The above plan of the Light Station,
drawn in 2006, was mainly based on official plans (Office of Lighthouse
Engineer - 9th District, Milwaukee 1907, and US Coast Guard circa
1978), whose accuracy seemed to be more than just a bit questionable.
In 2007, first rudimentary comparisons of those old plans with the
reality on the spot showed that the distance between the 1867 lighthouse
and the fog signal building was wrong by more than 40 ft, and some
bearings deviated by up to 17 degrees. The contour lines in the
1907 plan proved to be mere fantasy. They showed hills were there
are valleys and vice versa.
To see those old plans, please click here for the 1907 plan and here for the 1978 plan.
As a consequence, in August 2008, about 1000 measurements
were taken. During the winter they were worked up into a new plan,
which was finished in May 2009:
If you want a printed version of this plan, please click here to get a .doc file (1.75
MB) suitable for letter sized paper.
For a printable .pdf file (590 KB) please click here.
If you need a high resolution version in .jpg
format (1 MB), please click here.
In many documents, the workshop is called "carpenter's
shop", in a few it is a "paint shop".
According
to the interior, as abandoned in 1959 and assessed in 2006 / 2007,
it clearly was
a paint shop, maybe also used for some carpentry
work. To avoid confusion, the FILA plans
call it a workshop,
so nothing can go wrong.
Plans before 1910 show a well house in the woods
east of the fog signal building. Later plans
and aerial photos
from the first half of the 20th century show a well house close
to the beach
south of the historic lighthouse complex. In 2007,
the Webmaster used triangulation to locate
that spot, where
water pipes, other fixtures and some rotten beams can be found.
In 2008, he
also found the older well house in the dense thicket,
albeit much closer to the newer one than
what was to be expected
according to the plans. The location as given by the plans simply
didn't make sense, because it was on a steep slope high above
the shore where digging for
water would be most promising.
Furthermore, a little hut made of corrugated steel
stands forlorn and without a visible function
in the woods
north of the skeleton light tower and west of the workshop (not
indicated in the
plan above). Doug McCormick, who spent six
years as a kid at the light station, told us that
it was used
as a smokehouse around WW I. Anybody out there who knows if that
is the
displaced second well house?
This and quite a few other questions can be found
in our Mystery section. Please
click here
to have a look at it.
All maps designed by Hans Joerg
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