You can download the pattern here.

Here is a picture of the completed project.

I am hoping that I will create some other Michigan lighthouses from here on out. Ideally, I would like to create kits that museums could sell. I would just send them to them and they can keep all the proceeds.

I used an excellent freeware software. It is called KG-Chart for Cross Stitch.

For more information on the Ludington Lighthouse, please visit:

• Seeing the Light (Terry Pepper)
• Sable Point Lighthouse Keepers Association

For information on the lights, visit:

Lighthouses of Michigan

Boatnerd website

Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy

From Seeing The Light (Terry Pepper's Excellent site)

URL: http://www.geneseelighthouse.org/

I will hopefully be visiting this on the way to Cooperstown this month. The lighthouse sits beautifully over Rochester harbor, where the Genesee River flows into Lake Ontario. I will have some information after I visit it.

Site has great photos and information about the history of the lighthouse.

Some other links:

Rudy and Alice's Lighthouse Page

This lighthouse is part of the Seaway Trail in New York (and Pennsylvania)

Information about lighthouse from "lighthouse friends."

For information on visiting the Lighthouse and even spend the night at the Bed and Breakfast there.

Information from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.

Site about Oregon Lighthouses

Description: This site has a pretty spiffy collection of pages and information on lighthouses across the Great Lakes. if you click on the lake that you are interested in, you can then click on any of the lighthouses that dot the lake. Sometimes I think this makes more sense than breaking things down by state, or country. Just think about Lake Erie with four states and one province.

They offer five ways to navigate the site:

Region - Lets you pick through a series of regions, starting with the entire U.S.A., to narrow down your search. - Best is the Great Lakes

Index - An alphabetical listing of Lighthouses throughout the Midwest. Just click on the name in the listing to view a particular Lighthouse.

Coastline Tours - With this regional map you pick one of the colored tours. This will then walk you through a series of Lighthouses in that tour. Great for planning trips to see a series of Lighthouses. NOTE: Not all the shorelines of the Great Lakes are listed. I might do that on the northern short of Lake Erie this summer on the way to Cooperstown.

Previous / Next Buttons - Move very easily to different site. And a search function on the main page.

Excellent resource, primarily for Great Lakes lighthouses.

Saw an interested article in the Ann Arbor News from John Deiner of the Washington Post on traveling to the Azore Islands. The Azores are part of Portugal and are located about 800 miles west of that country in the Atlantic Ocean. One of the most striking lighthouses is the Capelinhos Lighthouse which is on the island of Faial and survived a volcanic eruption in 1957. The lighthouse has hardened ash all along its base

Here are some links to resources on lighthouses in this beautiful place (I think I would love to go there):

Azores Islands’ lighthouses and small beacons (NOTE: This is from an unpublished book...imagine if all the notes and unpublished books were on the web...would be pretty cool, especially when researching things like history and buildings.

Link from the Lighthouse Directory

Description: This is a great site from Keith Stokes with information about the great Mackinac Bridge and the maritime sites surrounding it. Included are very nice photographs, links and information about the lighthouses near the bridge. This great page (titled Lighthouses of the Straits of Mackinac) includes great photographs of lighthouses such as the Old Mackinac Point Light and Round Island Light.

Also included are photos from the Straits of Mackinac Lighthouse Tour and other trips (including other lighthouses in Michigan, Wisconsin

From their site: All of the information you need on U. S. lighthouses, in one convenient place. Find basic info, photos, and links to official lighthouse sites, as well as links to some of the most informative and interesting websites and articles about the history, upkeep, and sometimes sadly, the demise of America's lighthouses and keepers. You can search by state or by alphabetical listing.

If they do not have your favorite lighthouse among the 700 or so entries in their system, you can write them and they can add it. Great site from Roland Babineau.

Lighthouses of Cape Cod (Jay J. Pulli)
http://www.elohi.com/photo/lighthouse/
Great photos (although not all are coming up right now on the site). The descriptions are about the visit and the photographs, rather than the history of the lights. Still a great resource.

Lighthouse Getaway
http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/cod.html
They do a great job on the site of presenting the lighthouses of different regions and states. Page for Cape Cod (and Cape Ann) has many great photos.

Lighthouses of Cape Code (birdsandbeacons.com)
http://www.birdsandbeacons.com/Lighthouses/CapeCod_Lighthouses.htm
Front page includes nice graphical map of the lighthouses on the Cape. Links go to other pictures, but few descriptions. Photos by Ann Searle including other lighthouses along the Middle Atlantic and New England Coasts.

List of Massachusetts Lighthouses
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/ma.htm
From the Maritime Heritage Program of the National Park Service. Great source for information and older historical photographs of the lights.

Cape Cod Lighthouses (Brian Tague Photography)
http://www.briantague.com/CapeCodLights.html
These are great shots of Cape Cod Lighthouses. They do not include text, but the photos (all available for purchase from the site) are beautiful.

Cape Cod Highland Lighthouse
http://trurohistorical.org/
Excellent information on the history of this famous lighthouse on Cape Cod. Information on visiting the lighthouse is also available.

Lighthouse Encyclopedia Cape Cod Store
http://www.thecapecodstore.com/lighthouse_encyclopedia.html
All of the information you need on U. S. lighthouses, in one convenient place. Find basic info, photos, and links to official lighthouse sites, as well as links to some of the most informative and interesting websites and articles about the history, upkeep, and sometimes sadly, the demise of America's lighthouses and keepers. You can search by state or by alphabetical listing. Massachusetts Lights are found here.

Jeremy D'Entremont's New England Lighthouse Guide
http://lighthouse.cc/menu.html
Another great site with New England Lighthouses. Nice historical information, travel information and photographs for many lighthouses in New England. Massachuetts Lights are found here.

The pages include brief historical and geographical sketches. A great resource with some very interesting depictions of these buildings.

Pages on the lighthouses vary. While all the lighthouses on each body of water are listed, not all have large entries. For most, thera is a nice selection of photographs and basic information. For some, such as Marblehead on Lake Erie, a bigger entry exists.

He wrote about the primary section on lighthouses:

"The first section attempts to document all of the existing Bay lighthouses in an easy to navigate, informative format. Within "The Lights" section you'll find photographs and a brief history of every Chesapeake Bay area light that is still standing. Also included is information on the evolution of the government bodies that built and managed the lights, from the Lighthouse establishment under the Secretary of the Treasury to the U.S. Coast Guard. The different types of Bay lighthouses are discussed as are lightships and the various lamps and lenses used. The links section will point you to a number of Bay lighthouse-related, not-for-profit sites and also all of the area maritime museums I know of. Many of these organizations survive on a shoestring budget and a handful of people who really care. I love 'em. This is the most developed section of this site. I'm not a historian and all of this was created for no payment, so please excuse any minor errors (and let me know about them so I can fix them)."

The other two sections on the site describe cruising and his personal information (interest in diving, etc.)

The lighthouse entires are great brief records with links to other resources. All include a photograph. He also has a page and history of the Mumbles Lighthouse (Mouth of Swansea Bay, Glamorgan, Wales U.K.). His general links page has excellent links out to other sites.

DESCRIPTION: No trip to Ludington is going to be complete without a visit to this great lighthouse on the North Breakwater of the harbor at Ludington. While you cannot go inside the light, people walk along the breakwater to get to the light all the time and it does give you a neat feeling of being in the lake! A great pastime is to go to the city park, right near the lighthouse, and watch the sun set in the west. It is a beautiful view. Around 8pm, the S.S.Badger makes one of its trips across to Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

For more information on site light, visit Terry Pepper's site, a Wikipedia entry that I have been dabbling with and Lighthouse Friends (which includes some great shots of the lighthouse in winter.

There are other lighthouses in the are...the great Ludington harbor light and Little Sable...hope to visit them as well.

Excellent site indeed and valuable for links to all Canadian lighthouses.