Today is National Lighthouse Day! Northeast Ohioans are lucky to have historic, picturesque lighthouses down the Lake Erie coast, but we're spotlighting the Marblehouse Lighthouse this year, as it celebrates its 200th birthday 🌊 Read more:
MARBLEHEAD, Ohio -- Before there was a road, before there was a town – before there was Cedar Point, across the bay – there was a lighthouse, rising from the rock, warning incoming boaters about the dangers nearby.Today, the Marblehead Lighthouse, the oldest continuously operating lighthouse in the Great Lakes, is as much tourist attraction as navigational aid, due to GPS and other on-shore landmarks.
The park is located about 80 miles west of Cleveland, on land formerly known as Rocky Point, now the Marblehead Peninsula . Leave some time, too, for the village of Marblehead, founded in 1891, 70 years after the lighthouse was constructed, largely inhabited at the time by workers at the numerous limestone quarries in the region.
In total, there were 15 Marblehead Lighthouse keepers, including two women, from 1822 until 1943, when the U.S. Coast Guard took over.
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