• Lake Superior in a stormy mood. Photo copyright Craig Blacklock

    Pictured Rocks

    National Lakeshore Michigan

History & Culture

This black and white photo depicts the Munising Coast Guard station in 1968.

Munising U.S. Coast Guard Station, 1968

NPS photo

Please use these links to pdf files and other webpages to learn more about the history surrounding Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.






Maritime Sites
Au Sable Light Station
Au Sable Light Station podcasts


Administrative History of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (191 page pdf)
Great Lakes Shoreline Recreation Area Survey


A Brief Lakeshore History - site bulletin (pdf)
A History of Service: Origins of the U.S. Coast Guard - site bulletin (pdf)
Grand Marais - U.S. Coast Guard (pdf)
Logging History - site bulletin (pdf)
Munising Range Lights - site bulletin (pdf)
Munising U.S. Coast Guard Station - site bulletin (pdf)
Schoolcraft Blast Furnace - site bulletin (pdf)
Shipwrecks - site bulletin (pdf)
 
National Park Service websites

Au Sable Light Station, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: The Life of the Keepers as Reflected in their Official Journals (pdf)

History and Culture
Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Michigan Lighthouses
Maritime Heritage Program
 

Did You Know?

The flowers of submerged buttercups rise above the surface of the water and can be quite showy, even when small.

Several species of plants in the Buttercup Family are aquatic, growing underwater in lakes and ponds.  A few are even amphibious, meaning that a single plant lives partly on sand along a shoreline and partly submerged.  Such plants have runners, like a strawberry plant, and grow roots along the runners. The submerged leaves appear quite different from the ones growing in air.