Spend a night outside looking up at the stars at Split Rock Lighthouse. Tuesday, August 12 is Dark Sky Night at Split Rock ...

Split Rock Lighthouse was operational from 1910 until 1969 when the United States Coast Guard decommissioned and deeded the lighthouse property, including all of the internal workings of the ...

Split Rock Lighthouse was commissioned in 1910, and operated until 1969. The state of Minnesota took over the property in 1971, and the Minnesota Historical Society has managed it since 1976.

Most years during peak season, Split Rock will see a thousand visitors a day or more. About a third of their visitors come from other countries. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1969.

Construction at Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors will start May 5, the Minnesota Historical Society said, at which point the lighthouse itself and other historic buildings will be closed to ...

DULUTH, Minn. — The 110-year-old Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior’s North Shore is usually only lit once per year to mark the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November.

As Split Rock Lighthouse's first head keeper from 1910 to 1928, Orren "Pete" Young cautioned countless sailors from his cliff-top perch overlooking Lake Superior, 50 miles up the shore from Duluth.

The Split Rock Lighthouse site, run by the Minnesota Historical Society, sits in Split Rock Lighthouse State Park — up the shore from Two Harbors, between Castle Danger and Beaver Bay — and is ...

The Madeira sank in 1905 a short distance from where Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors now stands. The wheel is on display in the lighthouse's exhibit hall as part of a new attraction.

By March 2007, less than two years after the great storm of 1905, Congress forked out the $75,000 for Split Rock, part of a half-million of lighthouse money for the Great Lakes.

The Split Rock Lighthouse beacon, located along the Lake Superior shore near Beaver Bay, Minn., is lit at dusk on Nov. 10, 2010, to recognize the anniversary of the sinking of the freighter Edmund ...

A delegation led by the steamship company president descended upon Washington, D.C. In early 1907, Congress appropriated $75,000 for a lighthouse and fog signal in the vicinity of Split Rock.