Fort Gratiot Lighthouse

Port Huron Michigan

Fort Gratiot, named after General Charles Gratiot, the engineer in charge of its construction, was established in 1814 to guard the juncture of Lake Huron and the St. Clair River.
Its lighthouse, the oldest in Michigan, was constructed north of the fort in 1829 by Lucius Lyon who later became one of Michigan's first U.S. Senators.

Originally sixty-five feet high, the white painted brick tower was extended to its present height of eighty-six feet in the early 1860s.