| | Seeing The Light - Eagle Harbor Range Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | The village of Eagle Harbor sits on the western edge of a small bay some sixteen miles west of Copper Harbor, and first gained significance when Edward Taylor constructed a pier in the bay in 1844. |
 | | A rocky shallow bar stretching across the mouth of the bay made entry into the harbor extremely treacherous, as vessels were forced to "thread the needle" through a narrow area in the bar, which was the only area where the water deepened, and even then only to a depth of under ten feet. |
 | | Congress responded favorably with an appropriation of $8,000 on March 3, 1875, and the District Inspector visited Eagle Harbor to negotiate for the purchase of the necessary land for the station on a location close to the mouth of the Cedar River. |
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