The Split Rock Lighthouse is an octagonal yellow-brick ... at spectacular rate from the first order of 2,000 tons in the fall of 1892 nearly 25 million by 1910. The traffic of iron ore transformed ...

Event includes beacon lighting, bell tolls and reading the names of those drowned In 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wis., headed for Detroit with 26,000 tons of taconite when ...

you can also stay left at the entrance to Split Rock and enter the museum. This is where you can get inside the lighthouse during summertime or visit the exterior vantage points in the fall.