40 Mile Point Lighthouse in Rogers City along Lake Huron Highway 23.In 1890 $25,000.00 was allocated for building the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse near Hammond Bay. Taken from 40 MIle Point/seeing the light on the internet: Four years after assuming responsibility for the nations aids to navigation, Commissioner of Lighthouses Charles R Putnam made the startling revelation that the Forty Mile Point Light had been built in the wrong location. In his 1913 annual report to Congress, he stated that the county survey charts used in selecting the site in 1896 were in error, and that vessel masters expected the lighthouse to be erected at Nine Mile Point, some 20 miles to the northeast, where a total of nine strandings had occurred between 1903 and 1909. With Eleventh District Inspector E L Woodruffs s estimate that a new Light and fog signal could be built at Nine Mile Point for $50,000, Putnam suggested that with the appropriation, the Forty Mile Point Light could be downgraded, and the fog signal eliminated. After Putnam reiterated the request for the appropriation in his 1914 annual report, Congress responded turned down the request, and Putnam forever abandoned the cause. OOPS
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:22:54 +0000