Historic Great Lakes Light Lists


Every year, the Federal Department responsible for the nation's aids to navigation published a complete listing of all aids to navigation. Commonly known as "Light Lists," these books contained considerable descriptive information about the structures, their location, appearance, height and light and sound signal characteristics. As such, they are extremely useful in tracking changes over time. GLLKA is embarking on an initiative to digitize these volumes and make them available for online research. Click on the links below to view the volumes which have been digitized thus far.
  

1857 Light List

 

1878 Light List

 

1931 Light List

 

2009 Light List

Check back again, as we will be adding more volumes as volunteer digitizing time allows