Great Lakes Lighthouse Bibiography

The following list of lighthouse books is not intended to be represent a fully comprehensive listing, but will serve useful as a starting point for anyone building, or adding to their lighthouse library. Note that most of these books are available in GLLKA's secure online store.

Great Lakes Lighthouse Books

The Northern Lights
Author: Charles C. Hyde
Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present
Author: Wayne Sapulski
Publisher: Wilderness Adventure Books

Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales
Author: Frederick Stonehouse
Publisher: Avery Color Studios

Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia
Author: Larry & Patricia Wright
Publisher: Boston Mills Press

Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses: Ontario, Erie, and Huron
Author: Ray Jones and Bruce Roberts
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press

Western Great Lakes Lighthouses: Michigan and Superior
Author: Ray Jones and Bruce Roberts
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press

Great Lakes Lighthouses: American and Canadian
Author: Wes Oleszewski
Photographer: Wayne Sapulski
Publisher: Avery Color Studios

A Travelers Guide to 116 Western Great Lakes Lighthouses
Author: Laurie & Bill Penrose
Publisher: Friede Publications

A Traveler's Guide to 100 Eastern Great Lakes
Author: Laurie & Bill Penrose
Publisher: Friede Publications

A Traveler's Guide to 116 Michigan Lighthouses
Author: Laurie & Bill Penrose
Publisher: Friede Publications

Lighthouses of Wisconsin - A Guidebook and Keepsake
Author: Ray Jones and Bruce Roberts
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press

Lighthouses of Michigan: A Guidebook and Keepsake
Author: Ray Jones and Bruce Roberts
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press

Wisconsin Lighthouses: A Photographic & Historical Guide
Author: Ken and Barb Wardius
Publisher: Prairie Oak Press

Lighthouses & Range Lights of Door County, Wisconsin
Author: Peter Bosman
Publisher: William Caxton Limited

Keepers of the Lights: Lighthouse Keepers & Their Families: Door County, Wisconsin
Author: Steven Karges
Publisher: William Caxton Limited

Cana Island Lighthouse
Author: Ken & Barb Wardius
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Fairport Harbor
Author: Fairport Harbor Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Grand Traverse Lighthouse
Author: Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Guarding Door County: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations.
Author: Stacy Thomas, Virginia Thomas
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Lighthouses of Northwest Michigan
Author: Susan Roark Hoyt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Lighthouses of Southwest Michigan
Author: Susan Roark Hoyt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Michigan City Lighthouse: Guardians of Lake Michigan
Author: Steven D. Elve
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Port Clinton, the Peninsula, and the Bass Islands
Author: Sally Sue Witten
Arcadia Publishing

Wind Point Lighthouse
Author: Barb Wardius, Ken Wardius
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

General Lighthouse History Books

Nineteenth-Century Lights - Historic Images of American Lighthouses.
Author: Candace and Mary Louise Clifford.
Publisher: Cypress Communications

Women Who Kept the Lights
Author: Candace and Mary Louise Clifford
Publisher: Cypress Communications.

Guardians of the Lights
Author: Elinor DeWire
Publisher: Pineapple Press.

America's Lighthouses - An Illustrated History
Author: Francis Ross Holland Jr.
Publisher: Dover Publications

Guardians of the Sea - History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present
Author: Robert Erwin Johnson
Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Lighthouses & Keepers: U.S. Lighthouse Service and Its Legacy.
Author: Dennis Noble
Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute Press

Lighthouse Families.
Author: Cheryl & Bruce Roberts
Publisher: Crane Hill Publishers

Instructions to Light Keepers and Masters of Light-House Vessels, 1902
Author: Authentic Reprint
Publisher: Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association