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Coast Guard replaces fogged panels at Whiskey Point Light, 2009

Also Whiskey Point Lighthouse new acrylic panels · Beaver Island lighthouse Coast Guard window work 2009

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Date2009-07
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Summary

The July 2009 Beaver Beacon reported that a Coast Guard team spent a day at Whiskey Point Light replacing fogged white and red Plexiglas panels with thicker acrylic sheets.

Evidence limits

The brief does not identify the crew, exact work date, or later condition of the light.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, July 2009, "New Windows."
    Reports a Coast Guard team replacing the fogged white and red Plexiglas panels with thicker acrylic sheets at Whiskey Point Light, then owned by St. James Township and the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the lighthouse-maintenance report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard replaces fogged panels at Whiskey Point Light, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-whiskey-point-lighthouse-window-replacement-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2009, "New Windows." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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