Where Am I

[GLF]

I am curious to see who knows their ports. Who can tell me what port this is?

[caznik]

Never been to that port.

Caznik

[CaptLevi]

I've never been either so just a guess....New Buffalo?

[Catfishhoge]

I am not familure with it.

[HitMan]

That is definitely New Buffalo, MI

[GLF]

Yes, it is New Buffalo. I took a drive down there yesterday and passes out a few cards

[Take Six...]

Tricky.. The lighthouse on top of the building threw me. It didn't used to be there.

[Steve Arend]

I've fished a few time off the rocks in the early spring for Cohos.

And fish along the beach there at night and early morning for Walleye.

Steve

[Mike]

Some more info for ya..

New Buffalo Lighthouse

Established: 1839-1859

Location: New Buffalo, Michigan.

Information:

Captain Wessel Whittaker ran his schooner "Postboy" ashore near Michigan City. In the process of recovering his boat, Whittaker took note of the Galien River and believed it to be a good site for a port.

Returning to New York, Whittaker encouraged some friends to purchase and survey the area now known as New Buffalo.

Located ten miles southwest of Michigan City.

At the time of construction only four other lighthouses existed on Lake Michigan at that time:

St. Joseph, Michigan 1831

Chicago, Illinois 1832

Pottawattamie Island, Wisconsin 1836-37

Michigan City, Indiana 1837

1843, various people questioned utility of New Buffalo Lighthouse.

In August 1859, a "Notice to Mariners" was made for the discontinuance of several lights including New Buffalo.

News article states "the lighthouse at New Buffalo crumbled and fell into the water and the piers crumbled due to deterioration with age and were crushed by the pressure of ice jams bordering the lake in the winter."

Keepers:

Thomas S. Smith - appointed 1840

Elijah B. Pressey - appointed 1841

Reuben Smith - appointed 1845

Joseph W. Miller - appointed 1849

Reuben W. Smith - appointed 1853