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Grand Marais Front Range Light Station

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Military reservation 200' strip parallel & adj to W pier of harbor entrance.

09/23/1895

About 6 acres

none

Shifting sand

On pier at water's edge

none

Directly onto harbor, either by tower or dwelling.

Pier, timber cribbed, plank decked.

By boat or RR to Grand Marais, thence by small boat across harbor or by team or on foot along harbor point to station.

About 3/4 mile to Post Office in Grand Marais. Town extends around S'ly side of harbor.

3/4 miles

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By small boat or by team. Bark road extends along sand point from town to light station

tower

1895

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