Crisp Point Light
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Crisp Point Light Station was one of five U.S. Life-Saving Service Stations along the coast of Lake Superior between Munising and Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Located about fourteen miles west of Whitefish Point, it was built in 1875 and became operational in 1876 as Life Saving Station Number Ten, of the U.S. Life-Saving Service District 10 (it was later part of District 11). "Crisp Point" got its name from one of the Life Saving Station keepers, an iron-willed boatman named Christopher Crisp. The other four Life-Saving Stations were Vermillion Point (now Vermilion, Michigan), about five miles east of Crisp Point, Two Hearted River, about five or six miles west of Crisp Point, Deer Park, Michigan (formerly known as the Sucker River Station and Muskallonge Lake Station), about ten or eleven miles west of Two Hearted River, and Grand Marais, about fifteen or sixteen miles west of Deer Park.
Crisp Point Lighthouse was first proprosed in 1896 and every year thereafter until finally approved in June, 1902. The fifteen acres of land was purchased at a price of $30.00. The deed was dated May 21, 1903.
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a violent storm. It sank in Lake Superior about 17 miles northeast of Crisp Point.
Website of Crisp Point Light Historical Society [1]
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