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Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
Lighthouse History
photo dated October, 1925
U.S. Coast Guard
No. 24. A MEMORIAL to Congress for an appropriation for the establishment of a light
house at Kewaunee.
The Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents; that the Harbor of Kewaunee
in Kewaunee county is situated on the west side of Lake Michigan on the route usually traveled and run over by
the regular lines of steamers plying between New Buffalo via Chicago, Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc,
and Twin Rivers to Green Bay, and that it is for the safety of all crafts navigating lake Michigan upon the said
route, and for the interest and benefit of commerce generally, and as a matter of trade and profit that such steamers
and other crafts should land at the harbor of Kewaunee, yet the navigators find the landing to be dangerous and
unsafe, and at the loss of many lives heretofore, in getting in and out of the said harbour during the night or
in heavy weather in the day time. It is believed that the erection of a lighthouse, at or near Kewaunee, would
wholly remedy the evil, and remove the danger, so as to make the landing and navigation practicable at all seasons,
and at all times, for any crafts navigating the waters of Lake Michigan, or the entire chain of lakes.
Your memorialists therefore pray your honorable body to make an appropriation of ten thousand dollars or such other
sum as may be sufficient for the erection and establishment of a light house, at or near Kewaunee, in Kewaunee
county, and your memorialists as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.,
Approved, March 25, 1854.
[Source: "General acts passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin"; By
Wisconsin; Publ. 1854; Pg. 168; Submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack]
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