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Name: Minnesota Point Light   

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Nearest Town or City:
Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Location: North side of entrance to Lake Superior.


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Notes:
Only about half of this abandoned brick lighthouse tower remains. The ruins are also endangered by beach erosion, but an erosion control project is underway in the area.

Description of Tower: Conical brick tower.

Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.

This light is not operational

Other Buildings?
none

Date Established: 1856

Date Present Tower Built: 1856

Date Deactivated: 1913

Current Use: Abandoned.

Open To Public? Grounds only.

Museum?
no

Directions:
Accessible via a one and one-half mile walk from Minnesota Avenue to the end of Minnesota Point in Duluth.


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