This was a significant day in the restoration of the 1867 lighthouse. The team of Marty, Tom, Barb & Jeff installed the first of nine replacement panels to open up the lantern room. Why nine? The decagonal lantern room had a single glass panel remaining when FILA began restoration in 2006. Here’s what FILA faced […]
Volunteers Marty Rosalik, Tom McBride, Barb Falkenhagen and Jeff Brearley arrived today. A key project is working on the 1867 lantern room…. As Marty says “The shop has a view.” Detroit Locomotive Works built our lantern room and those of many other lights. The firm went bankrupt years ago. Marty has resurrected the […]
We recently added content to the website highlighting the station’s head keepers and many of their assistants. The new South Fox Lightkeepers page can be reached from a link on the “History” page. Research found a number of previously unknown photos plus the identify of those shown in this iconic 1939 photo: Keeper Will Green, […]
Today’s Stamp Flashes announced the newly created South Fox Light Station stamp: Stamp Flashes is the official newsletter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society Passport Club. Information on sites participating in the lighthouse stamp program can be found at: https://uslhs.org/passports
The North Point Lighthouse Museum is featuring Box 739 in their July 10 lecture about the lighthouse library system presented by a professor of Victorian literature. https://northpointlighthouse.org/lecture-series Box 739 started its life with a visit to Eagle Bluff, WI from August 1, 1898 to May 26, 1899. It came to the east side of the lake […]
After a number of maintenance projects (water, outhouse, etc.), Marty & Tom are back to researching steps to restore the 1867 lighthouse lantern room. Organizing tools….backing out screws that have been in place for nearly 160 years is not an easy proposition. Even getting to the screws is a challenge. When FILA first began rehabbing […]
An article based on local diver and photographer Chris Roxburgh was featured in the May 2, 2024 Milwaukee Sentinel with great images from around the island. He has additional photos on his facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisRoxburghDiver.
Arrival! Lots of gear on the beach needing to be carried up to the lighthouse. The opening crew checked up on the solar system….it weathered the winter well. Thanks again to the Great Lakes Lightkeepers Association for donating major components. The team also worked to upgrade the lake-water filtering system to be used by volunteer […]
The first team of the 2024 season headed out today. Thanks to our awesome volunteers!
An article that highlighted the South Fox “new light” was the cover story for the Winter 2024 edition of the United States Lighthouse Society’s publication “The Keeper’s Log.” The story describes these onshore skeletal lights that were used on the East, West and Gulf Coasts as well as the Great Lakes. Skeletals were a relatively […]