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The Port of Grand Haven had its first lighthouse in 1839, it consisted of a five-room cottage for the keeper with a separate light tower. Within a few years the error of the location became apparent and a seawall was built to protect the light tower from erosion. Storm and ice erosion persisted and a second light was built in 1855 on a bluff 150 feet above the beach. When the South Pier was completed in the fall of 1904 a 52-foot steel tower was placed on the end of the South Pier and the Fresnel lens was moved from the bluff to the new tower
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