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Dusk at Split Rock

Sunset and moon behind the Split Rock Lighthouse, shortly before they fired her up in 2008.

After a storm on Nov. 28, 1905 had damaged 29 ships, ...
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Sunset and moon behind the Split Rock Lighthouse, shortly before they fired her up in 2008.

After a storm on Nov. 28, 1905 had damaged 29 ships, Congress authorized $70,000 to build a lighthouse and fog signal at Split Rock. The light station was completed in 1910.

The light was taken out of service in 1969 when modern navigation methods made it obsolete, but the beacon is lit once a year on November 10th to commemorate the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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