Grassy Island Range Lights
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Grassy Island Range Lights seen from the air in 1945
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Grassy Island Range Lights in their present location
 
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Attraction
Location
Body of Water: Green Bay
Trail Name: Green Bay/Door County
Year Built: 1872
Nearest Address: Green Bay Yacht Club 100 Bay Beach Rd
Nearest City: Green Bay
County: Brown
Zip Code: 54302
Latitude: N 44°32.17140'
Longitude: W -088°00.30960'
Attraction
Features
Open to public?: Yes
Mooring buoy?: No
Mooring buoy in place?: No
Snorkelable?: No
Dive guide?: No
Trails sign?: No
National Register?: Yes
Attraction
Description
Grassy Island lies at the very southern end of Green Bay near the mouth of the Fox River. The Grassy Island Range Lights, built in 1872, were located on an eastern embankment that was cut through the island, enabling seamen to recognize the deepened artificial navigation channel in lower Green Bay....The lights remained in service until 1966, at which time it was suggested they be burned so that additional dredging of the harbor could be undertaken. Progressive thinking members of the Green Bay Yacht Club rescued the wooden lights from certain destruction and brought them to the Yacht Club by barge.(Wisconsin Lighthouses, Ken and Barb Wardius) The lights are being restored and can be viewed from the Municipal Boat Launch next to the Green Bay Yacht Club on Bay Beach Road in Green Bay.
 
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Shipwrecks (8)
Belle Laurie (1876)
Flora Webster (1871)
Free Trader (1860)
G.A.R. (1877)
Luna (1862)
Minnie (1865)
Richard Mott (1854)
Satisfaction (1894)
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