Duluth Harbor North Breakwater Light
“Everybody loves lighthouses. They’re like apple pie, motherhood, and the American Flag. Lighthouses offer a wonderful charisma because each one has its own character.” Wayne Wheeler, president of the U.S. Lighthouse Society.
Lighthouses are the eyes of the sea: stately sentinels…serene, silent and statuesque. People seem to be drawn to lighthouses; there is a certain mystique and each filled with folklore, history, legend of shipwrecks, drownings, heroic rescues, romance, and ghosts. Lighthouses are metaphoric. Built on a rock; lighthouses become a metaphor of guidance and stability, often for a person who has provided a beacon through life, guiding one through ever present storms, the fog of decisions, and providing an ever-present stable beam.
First illuminated on 07 Apr 1910, it’s light has guided many on Lake Superior into “one of the worst and most dangerous” harbors on the Great Lakes. Originally built at a cost of $4,000, its continual light and stable presence have become priceless. This from the local newspaper on the day the light first shone:
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