Station Grindstone City, Michigan
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Location:
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About 2 miles northeast of Port Austin, and about 2 miles southeast of Port Austin Reef Light; Lake Huron
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Date of Conveyance
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1878
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Station Built:
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Unknown
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1939
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Henry Gill, Jr., was appointed 28 September 1881 and was still serving in 1915.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.
Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.
U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.