The Peche Island Rear Range Light (or Peach Island Rear Range Light) was a historic lighthouse "off
Peche Island
Peche Island ( French pronunciation anglicized to , therefore occasionally misspelled "Peach"), is an uninhabited, currently (reduced by erosion from a 1965 measurement of 109 acres / 43.7 ha) Canadian-owned island in the Detroit River, at it ...
in the entrance to the
Detroit River from
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair (french: Lac Sainte-Claire) is a freshwater lake that lies between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Michigan. It was named in 1679 by French Catholic explorers after Saint Clare of Assisi, on whose feast day ...
."
Located in American waters just north of the border to Canada
it was moved to
Marine City, Michigan upon its deactivation.
History
This light was built as part of a pair of
range lights to guide ships to the south end of the lake.
Erected on a crib in open water, by 1908 it had developed a severe list to one side, and in 1983 it was replaced with a skeletal tower.
The old tower was saved, and minus its base, was installed in lighthouse Park in Marine City (), where it still stands.
References
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Lighthouses completed in 1908
Lighthouses in Michigan
1908 establishments in Michigan