75K views · 1.5K reactions | We are in Traverse City at Mission Point Lighthouse on Old Mission Peninsula. #traversecity #lighthouse #oldmissionpeninsula | MI Playground | Facebook

Peninsula Point Lighthouse: Congress appropriated funds for the building of a lighthouse on the Stonington Peninsula on July 20, 1864. This marked the beginning of an era of lighthouse history that well over a hundred years later can still fuel the fires of imagination. Wooden sailing ships needed navigational help to keep their hulls from being torn open on the treacherous shoals of the channels leading to safety at the docks of Escanaba, Gladstone, Fayette and Nahma. There were busy ports tran

141K views · 3.4K reactions | This abandoned lighthouse has a ton of history! Come with as we tour this space and stay here for 24 hours. #lighthouse #24hours #overnight #abandoned #LukeMcFadden | FV Southern Girl Bodkin Point Seafood | Facebook