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Award-winning Log Home Near Marquette — SOLD
NEW PRICE! 1,000 feet of frontage, 500 feet on Lake Superior and 500 feet on a 137-acre Huron Mountain Lake. There is 6.1 acres, more including the beaches. This home has been featured on the cover of Log Home Living. It has 3,534 square feet living space plus a finished 1,767 SF basement, 5,300 SF in all with 5 bedrooms including two master bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths (two are Master Bathrooms), and 4 fireplaces. It offers easy year round access just 14 miles from Marquette. The Saux Head Point Association includes an adjacent 640-acre of forest with a mile of undeveloped Lake Superior beach, all of which is jointly owned and shared by this property and 16 others.
The Lore of the Lakes
Granite Island Scott Holman’s Lake Superior Light House rehab (great site)
Lighthouses of the Upper Peninsula can be found through Exploring the North’s list of Upper Peninsula Lighthouses open to the public and Terry Pepper’s Seeing the Light.
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is dedicated to the perils of maritime transport on the Great Lakes. It is fittingly located at Whitefish Point, Michigan, site of the oldest active lighthouse on Lake Superior near Paradise, Newberry and the Tahquamenon Falls. The collection includes artifacts like the bell from the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald and a fully restored 1861 Lightkeepers Quarters.
Photo: Marquette, Mich., Lighthouse Point, courtesy Library of Congress (LC-D4-4759)