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| | Whiskey Point Lighthouse, Beaver Island Harbor, Beaver Island Michigan |
 | | The second of Beaver Island's lighthouses was built in 1856 at Whiskey Point, so called because the first white habitation was clustered around a trading post built here eighteen years earlier that made its profit by swapping provisions, particularly whiskey, and weak whiskey at that, for the produce gleaned from this archipelago. |
 | | Paradise Bay had supplanted Mackinac Island as the economic center of Michigan's northwest a few years before (because cordwood was a dollar less on the dock here, not needing to be imported from the mainland), and this fine natural harbor quickly became a regular stopping and refueling point for lake traffic between Chicago and Buffalo. |
 | | John Andy Gallagher, who joined in 1934 and was stationed at Beaver Head, told stories such as sailing to Boulder Reef to take thirty people off the floundering Eugene J Buffington in a June storm, including the Captain's sobbing wife, before she could split in two. |
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