Dave and I drove out to Whitefish Point while on our Upper Michigan vacation. Whitefish Point has the longest running lighthouse on the great lakes. The lighthouse was commissioned in 1849, and this present tower was constructed during President Lincoln's administration (1861). Whitefish Point marks the eastern edge of an 80 mile stretch between it and Munsining, Michigan that is known as "Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast". 200 of the 550 major shipwrecks recorded on Lake Superior are in the vicinity of Whitefish Point. The 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald happened 15 miles NW of the Point. The lighthouse was placed on the National Historic Register in 1973.