Great Lakes lantern identifcation contest - Prize offered

by **Terry_Pepper** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:01 am

While reviewing lanterns designs on lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan while creating a database of lantern information late last night, I thought it might be fun to put together a lantern identification puzzle for my fellow Great Lakes lighthouse junkies.

If you would like to give it a go, here are the rules:

Do not post your answers in the forum, but send me a private message listing of which lighthouse you believe each of the 49 lanterns shown below belong. Please include the accompanying number for each, as in the following fictitious example:

1 - Lonesome Point
2 – Rocky Bay
3 – Whisky Shoal

I will then post the name of the first person to send me a correct listing here in this topic.

To “spice the pot” I will send the winning entry a CD with 10 digitized Great Lakes Light Lists from 1845 through 1977, all in PDF format.

Note that if you send an incorrect response, I will not send you the correct list, in order to prevent anyone from passing the answers to someone else. I will only tell you how many you have incorrectly identified.

Give it a go!

by **Hersh** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:03 am

At what point can we ask for hints???? A couple of them are real toughies.

by **Terry_Pepper** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:00 am

After almost 24 hours, I have received two entries.

The first received mis-identified two of the lanterns.
The second received mis-identified three.

I will keep the contest open through Sunday April 3, and will post the correct result at that time, or after the first correct entry is received.

by **Terry_Pepper** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:05 pm

Congratulations to Hersh for sending the winning entry, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a certified Great Lakes Lighthouse Junkie!

I will wait until Sunday April 3 to post the listing of all 49 lighthouses in case anyone else would like to give it a try for bragging rights.

Mike, I will burn your CD this weekend and get it in the mail to you on Monday if you would send your mailing address to my regular home email address.

Again - congratulations.

by **Hersh** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:43 pm

I guess I have too much free time on my hands....

There were some really tough ones in there, as well as a couple I should have known right off the bat but spaced on.

All in all a great contest Terry, thanks for the mental workout.

by **Grover1** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:38 am

Mike,

Nice going ...

Barry

by **Leah Loar-Mays** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:44 am

Mike is a lighthouse nerd.......Mike is a lighthouse nerd......... :lol:

One of the many reasons we love you, Mike!! Congratulations. ^:)^

by **beachbum1616** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:55 pm

Congratulations Mike!

by **cawteener** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:13 pm

Congrats!

by **Hersh** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:50 pm

I'm a nerd for many reasons..... But Lighthouse nerd is a title I can live with. I'll put it on my resume along with boatnerd, photo geek, gun nut.

Anyone else still playing??

by **Terry_Pepper** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:01 pm

For anyone who might be interested, here are the lighthouses to which the lanterns belong:

01. Isle Royale (Menagerie Island)
02. Cheboygan River Range Front
03. Detour Reef
04. Grand Island East Channel
05. Grand Traverse
06. Old Mackinac Point
07. Grand Island Range Rear
08. Holland Harbor
09. Manitou
10. Grays Reef
11. St. Helena Island
12. Escanaba Crib
13. Sturgeon Point
14. Fourteen Mile Point
15. Manistee Pierhead
16. Manistique Pierhead
17. Munising Range Rear
18. Frankfort
19. Portage River
20. Menominee
21. Harbor Beach Breakwall
22. Kewaunee Pierhead
23. Sand Island
24. Wisconsin Point
25. Grosse Point
26. Tawas Point
27. Point Peninsula
28. Seul Choix Pointe
29. Devils Island
30. Saginaw River Range Rear
31. Cana Island
32. Raspberry Island
33. Baileys Harbor
34. Port Austin Reef
35. Manning Memorial
36. Presque Isle Breakwater
37. Algoma Pierhead
38. Little Traverse
39. Point Iroquois
40. Little Point Au Sable
41. Ontonagon
42. Fourteen Foot Shoal
43. Middle Island
44. Poe Reef
45. Mission Point
46. Point Betsie
47. Beaver Island Harbor
48. Mendota
49. Keweenaw Entrance

Again, congrats to Mike for submitting the first correct listing.

by **Hersh** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:01 pm

Escanaba crib was really tough, and Grand Traverse, which I should have gotten on first glance, was too. The one I finally got right to win was Seul Choix. I had initially labeled it as New Presque Isle and then forgotten about it. Only when I was really examining them did I notice that the brickwork behind the corbels white while Presque is solid green.

All in all, this caused me to pull out a good deal of my remaining hair.

by **Terry_Pepper** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:25 pm

Also, Seul Choix Pointe has a cylindrical ventilator atop the lantern roof, similar to those normally found on oil storage buoldings only larger.

Presque Isle and Wind Point, which were also identifed as image 28 by a couple of folks, all are all equipped with standard cylindrical vent balls.

Call me anal - call me a nerd - I accept all such comments with pride - LOL!

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