Life Saving Station
N 46° 41.966 W 085° 25.338
16T E 620615 N 5172973
Its a tough drive just to get a marker with the station not even there.
Waymark Code: WMXYPV
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 03/18/2018
Views: 10
Here stood the Two-Hearted River Life Saving Station, built in 1876. This station, like many others on the Great Lakes, was of the second class -- erected at a cost of $4,790 and manned by volunteer crews. The facility, a simple two-story building with a small lookout tower, housed a lifeboat and other necessary equipment for recovering endangered sailors. An average crew consisted of six to eight experienced surfmen. In 1915 the Life Saving Service was integrated into the U.S. Coast Guard.
Several shipwrecks occurred near the mouth of the Two-Hearted River, also referred to as the Twin River and the Big Two Hearted River. Among these were the Cleveland (1864), the W. W. Arnold (1869), and the Sumatra (1875). After construction of the life saving station here in 1876, the lifesavers were responsible for brave rescues in the Satellite (1879) and the Phineas S. Marsh (1896) disasters. The station was decommissioned in the 1930s and the structure was razed in 1944.
Parking nearby?: yes
Registered Site #: L0758
Historical Date: Not listed
Historical Name: Not listed
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