The Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light is a lighthouse located on Sturgeon Bay in Door County , Wisconsin .
5-620: Painted red, the light is situated on the north pier of the southern entrance to the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal . There are two lighthouses at this location, the other being the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse . This Wisconsin -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to a United States lighthouse is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
10-513: Is a ship canal connecting Sturgeon Bay with Lake Michigan across the Door Peninsula in Door County , Wisconsin . A dredged channel continues through Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay . This combined waterway allows ships to sail between Lake Michigan and Green Bay without traversing the dangerous Porte des Morts strait. The canal is approximately 1.3 miles (2.1 km) long, cutting through
15-555: The canal route was burned to get rid of it instead of being used for wood. The cost of completing the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) cut in 1881 was $ 291,461.69. In 1893, the Ogden private investors group sold all interest in the canal to the United States government . Since that time, the canal has been maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . The original canal was 100 feet (30 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep. As of May 2016 ,
20-465: The canal was 125 feet (38 m) wide and 20 feet (6.1 m) deep. Two jetties frame the canal's southeast entrance, each extending about 1,200 feet (370 m) into Lake Michigan. Several famous lighthouses mark the course of the canal and channel, including the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse at the eastern entrance on the northern side of the canal (approximately 230 feet (70 m) from Lake Michigan) next to Coast Guard Station Sturgeon Bay ;
25-408: The eastern side of the peninsula in a northwest-to-southeast orientation. There are no locks . The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal was dug by a private group headed by then-president of Chicago and North Western Railway , William B. Ogden , between July 8, 1872 and the late fall of 1881. Although smaller craft began using the canal in 1880, it was not open for large-scale watercraft until 1890. Timber along
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