Digest>December 2000

Photo Caption:

The “Newsboy” picking up passengers at the Monroe Piers Lighthouse. The vessel was a steam driven propeller ship built in 1899 by the F.W. Wheeler & Co. yards at West Bay City. Displacing 199 gross tons, the wooden hull of the “Newsboy” was 104 feet long, 22 feet wide and had a draft of 6 feet 4 inches. The boat took weekend sightseers from the north pier by the lighthouse on excursions to Toledo. Photograph courtesy of the Monroe County Historical Commission Archives.
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Story:

Monroe's Lighthouses - Lost in the pages of time
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