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Split Rock Lighthouse
On Tuesday afternoon, August 7, we continued up MN 61 to Split Rock Lighthouse, which is both a Minnesota Historical Society site and a Minnesota state park. The light house is on a rocky cliff over Lake Superior, and is restored to its 1920s appearance. It provided a light using a Fresnel lens and a foghorn to help ships avoid the area. We toured the light house, the fog signal building and the restored keeper's house. One of the tour guides turned on the fog horn briefly, which was quite loud. He said the real thing would have been ten times as loud!
When the light house was completed in 1910, the area was quite remote and supplies were brought to a dock below the light house and brought up by a winch system and later a train. We did take a hike down to the lake were the dock had once been, and the boys played on the shore. Nick stepped into some shallow puddles of water on the rocks on shore, which were much warmer than the lake itself.
Posted at 12:26PM Aug 20, 2007 by Dave Marquardt in Life |
