Vicinity of 6 mi. NW of Brimley in the Hiawatha National Forest, Brimley, Michigan. County/parish: Chippewa.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 30, 1975. NRIS 75000940.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Point Iroquois Light is a lighthouse on a Chippewa County bluff in the U.S. state of Michigan. Point Iroquois and its light mark the division line between Whitefish Bay and the western end of the St. Marys River, the connection between Lake Superior and other Great Lakes.
Point Iroquois includes a larger geographic area than the light station site. It was named for the Iroquois warriors massacred there by the Ojibwe in 1662. Native Algonkians called the point "Nadouenigoning", composed of the words "Nadone" (Iroquois) and "Akron" (bone).
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/25339168