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| Location | Ahmeek, Michigan |
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| Coordinates | 47°23′31″N 88°22′13.5″W / 47.39194°N 88.370417°W |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1919 |
| Construction | Yellow brick |
| Automated | 1939[1] |
| Height | 91 feet (28 m)[2] |
| Shape | Square |
| Markings | natural with black lantern and trim |
| Heritage | National Register of Historic Places listed place  |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1919 |
| Deactivated | 1954 |
| Focal height | 93 feet (28 m)[3] |
| Lens | Fourth order Fresnel lens with bullseye[5] |
| Range | 16 nautical miles; 29 kilometres (18 mi)[4] |
Sand Hills Light Station | |
| Nearest city | Mohawk, Michigan |
| Area | 55 acres (22 ha) |
| Architect | Park, Charles A. |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 94000746[6] |
| Added to NRHP | July 27, 1994 |
Sand Hills was an active lighthouse on the shore of Lake Superior is on private property and is currently closed to the public. It is located in Ahmeek in Keweenaw County in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which is the northern part of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
- ^ National Park Service Maritime Heritage Project, Inventory of Historic Lighthouses, Sand Hills Light.
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Tower Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com.
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Database of Focal Heights". Seeing the Light. terrypepper.com.
- ^ Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Sand Hills Light, but compare Wobser, David & Colt, Edin, Sand Hills Lighthouse, boatnerd.com which opines it was 9.6 nautical miles; 18 kilometres (11 mi) originally. Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Exploringwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.