Harbor History -Duluth Fog Horn

Listen to the old horn!

 Story contributed by Zenith City Online

by This Day

On this day in Duluth in 2006,  members of Duluth’s TOOT (“ReTurn Our Old Tone”), who had purchased Duluth’s old fog horn, dismantled the horn. Duluth had relied on a fog horn from 1885 to until the 1970s—some folks loved it, others hated it. The 1885 signal was updated with steam-powered whistles in 1901, locomotive […]

The diaphone fog whistle as it appeared inside the South Pier Lighthouse. (Image: X-comm.)

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History - Grand Island East Channel Light

Grand Island East Channel Light
by Terry Pepper

Location: Southeast tip of Grand Island, Michigan (north of Munising off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, see map below.) Year Built: 1867 Cost: $16,000 (about $255,000 today) Original Lens: Oil-fired steamer lens with a 49-foot focal plane. First Exhibited: August 15, 1868 Second Lens: Fixed white Fifth Order Fresnel lens (1869, range 13.25 miles) Fog Signal: None […]

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James R Barker arrived Duluth 09/24/2015

James R Barker arrived Duluth at 15:30 today

After the Rain!

After heavy rain for several hours, the creeks around Duluth overflowed with runoff.  A spectacular site as water cascaded down the 600 ft drop from the top of the hill to Lake Superior and the bay.
Here, the water flows down Miller Creek in Lincoln Park.

Miller Creek

Before the Rain!

As rain clouds moved into the region this morning, there was a brief time to capture the sunrise. Here the Federal Asahi waits at anchored outside the Duluth Shipping Can for it's turn to load grain.

Federal Asahi