Point Abino Light Tower National Historic Site of Canada
Designated
15 July 1998
The Point Abino Light Tower is a lighthouse on the rocky north shore of Lake Erie at the southern tip of Point Abino peninsula west of Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada. The Greek Revival white square tower with red accents is attached to the fog alarm building, and a lighthouse keeper's residence is located on the shore to the north.
The site was considered for a lighthouse as early as 1855 by a United States lighthouse inspector, but its shoal was only marked by buoys until 1912, when the whaleback vessel Buffalo Lightship was installed nearby. The lightship sank as a result of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.[A] Four years later the Canadian government commissioned the construction of the tower citing increased traffic at the eastern end of Lake Erie.[1] Due to the completion of the Welland Canal and the increase in shipping, it was decided to build a lighthouse and foghorn on the site.[B]
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Approaches and visits are severely restricted, as the site is landlocked — i.e., intervening land for access is private property.[3]
^ abAnderson.
^Montgomery, Williams & Wettlaufer.
^Hayden 2020.
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