Due to its position on the peninsula, it was invisible to down-bound boat traffic. The attached keeper's house is now a gift shop. Both Presque Isle lighthouses are part of the Annual Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival at Alpena in October. At Port Huron, streamers of brightly colored flags flutter from the Huron 's rigging. The lightship museum was the last American lightship to sail on the Great Lakes.
Tours lead from the main deck through the engine room and into the inner workings of the ship.
LAKE ERIE In Ashtabula, Ohio, the red-roofed Ashtabula Harbor Light stands at the end of a rock breakwall where the Ashtabula River empties into Lake Erie. Visitors must admire the lighthouse from afar, as it is closed to the public. There also are models of ships, photographs, a restored pilot house and a working scale model of a Hulett ore-unloading machine. The museum's picnic area affords an expansive view of the harbor and lighthouse. The 57-foot brick Presque Isle Light Station was commissioned at Erie, Pa., in 1873.