Tom Farnquist talked about the history of shipwrecks along the coast of Lake Superior west of the lighthouse, which is located on the northern-most point of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

The lighthouse is only 14.5 miles from Whitefish Point, but the road trip is more than twice as long and takes at least an hour.

This article, provided by the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, is part of a weekly series on Great Lakes lighthouses. This week the focus is on the Whitefish Light near Paradise.

A lighthouse was erected at Whitefish Point to guide ships around the dangerous shoals connecting Whitefish Bay to Lake Superior.

The original bell has been removed and is now on display in the Whitefish Point museum. A new bell was cast with the names of all 29 crew members engraved on it and placed on the sunken ship.

Minch decided to drop anchor near the Whitefish Point Lighthouse, hoping to wait out the storm. Because it was a summer cruise, there was no cargo on board, so only ballast water weighed it down.

Questions about ghosts at lighthouses are not uncommon from visitors to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, which is part of the campus of the Whitefish Point Lighthouse.

Whitefish Point, home to the oldest active lighthouse on Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, had at least three visits this summer from major television crews.

Ahead lay the unmistakable shape of the 1861 Whitefish Point Lighthouse, a national historic site in operation since Abraham Lincoln was president.