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  Caption
  Location Devils Island , Wisconsin
  Coordinates <!--From V7 USCG Light List-->
  Yearlit 1901
  Automated 1978
  Foundation Concrete
  Construction Cast iron
  Shape Cylindrical
  Height 71 feet (22 m)
  Lens Third order Fresnel Lens
  Range 13 Statute Miles (21 km)
  Characteristic Red, Flashing, 10 sec


The Devils Island lighthouse is a Lighthouse located on Devils Island , one of the Apostle Islands , in Lake Superior in Ashland County , Wisconsin , near the city of Bayfield .

Currently owned by the National Park Service and part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore , it was added to the National Register Of Historic Places in 1977, as reference number 77000145. Listed in the Library Of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey , WI-324. Several other structures in the vicinity are also listed in HABS.

A previous skeletal, wooden structure was constructed in 1891 has since been demolished. Historical brick Queen Anne Style keepers quarters are collocated with the current lighthouse.


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