This photograph is of Lighthouse Dune, which once stood near the mouth of the Galien River where New Buffalo’s harbor now sits. The year of the original photograph is approximately 1902. This dune may have undermined a lighthouse on this spot due to dune activity prior to the photograph.
LAT: 41.800086, LON: -86.748155
Photo Credit – 1902, Archives of Michigan; 2019, Kevin McKeehan, Michigan State University.
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