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Eagle Harbor Lifesaving Station, Eagle Harbor, MI

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Eagle Harbor Lifesaving Station

A Keweenaw County Historical Society museum in a former Great Lakes rescue station boathouse, showing early wooden rescue boats and equipment.

End of Marina Road, off M-26, Eagle Harbor, MI · Eagle Harbor, MI

About Eagle Harbor Lifesaving Station

The Keweenaw County Historical Society runs this museum in the last surviving building of a large Lake Superior rescue station. Its exhibits include restored wooden surfboats, a Coast Guard motor lifeboat, a beach rescue cart, a line cart, a life-car, a Lyle gun, and a Buda engine. A display covers the 1913 rescue of the crew of the steamer L. C. Waldo, which earned Gold Medals for station rescuers. Other displays hold family memorabilia from station crew members. The station was run under the Life Saving Service motto about going out to sea without any promise of returning.

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  • #Lake Superior
  • #rescue boats
  • #Coast Guard
  • #Keweenaw

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