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Open to the public on a regularly schedule basis.
Point Iroquois Light Station is located along the scenic Lake Superior shore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is only 20 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie and 51 miles east of Tahquamenon Falls. From birch bark canoes to giant ore freighters, this unique point of land has influenced travel for centuries.
Our museum reveals the stories of the lightkeepers and their families through family album photographs, antiques, and artifacts. Learn about the fourth order Fresnel lens that could project a light for sixteen miles. Climb the 72 steps to the top of the tower for a picturesque view of Lake Superior. Observe the freighters traveling through Whitefish Bay as you walk along a cobblestone beach in search of agates. Browse through our book shop, which offers a wide selection of historical readings about the Great Lakes.
Step back in time and visit our west wing exhibit. The assistant keeper’s apartment is restored to the way it looked in the early 1950’s. Imagine the smell of fresh cinnamon rolls or the sounds of “Suspense Theater” on the radio as you walk through.
We have made it easy for you to transfer your motorcycle tours to any GPS device. Just install the program on your computer and experience how easy it is
Please install update of Tourstart Transfer. The new Tourstart Transfer have some fixes of bugs and the programs function has been improved
Open to the public on a regularly schedule basis.
Point Iroquois Light Station is located along the scenic Lake Superior shore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is only 20 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie and 51 miles east of Tahquamenon Falls. From birch bark canoes to giant ore freighters, this unique point of land has influenced travel for centuries.
Our museum reveals the stories of the lightkeepers and their families through family album photographs, antiques, and artifacts. Learn about the fourth order Fresnel lens that could project a light for sixteen miles. Climb the 72 steps to the top of the tower for a picturesque view of Lake Superior. Observe the freighters traveling through Whitefish Bay as you walk along a cobblestone beach in search of agates. Browse through our book shop, which offers a wide selection of historical readings about the Great Lakes.
Step back in time and visit our west wing exhibit. The assistant keeper’s apartment is restored to the way it looked in the early 1950’s. Imagine the smell of fresh cinnamon rolls or the sounds of “Suspense Theater” on the radio as you walk through.
County Park Road, Presque Isle County, Michigan, USA
Snowmobile Rd Logging, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
East Water Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA
North Shore/Outlot, 49456, Grand Haven, Michigan, USA
Ives Avenue, 48138, Wyandotte, Michigan, USA
Pole line, Grant Township, Michigan, USA
Resort Road, 48441, Harbor Beach, Michigan, USA
McClain State Park Road, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Thomas Edison Parkway, 48060, Port Huron, Michigan, USA
Little Presque Isle Access, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
Point Iroquois Light House
Open to the public on a regularly schedule basis
This lighthouse was first illuminated in 1857 and it's fourth order Fresnel lens shone over one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world from the entrance to the St. Mary's River and the Soo Locks. The 65 ft. tower is open to the public during certain viewing hours or from top of the sandy shoreline.
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Whitefish Point Light House
Open to the public on a regularly schedule basis.
For shipwreck information, go to: http://www.michiganpreserves.org/whitefish.htm
Must visit the Shipwreck Museum!
The Whitefish Point Light, a lighthouse in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is the oldest operating light on Lake Superior. It is arguably the most important light on Lake Superior. All vessels entering and leaving Lake Superior must pass the light. It stands on the treacherous southern shoreline of Lake Superior known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes" in an area with more shipwrecks than any other area of the lake.
Construction on the first light began in 1847, and the lighthouse was said to resemble that at Old Presque Isle Light.[13] First lit in 1849, it was one of the first lighthouses on the shores of Lake Superior. It is the oldest active light on the lake, standing at the point of land that marks the course change for vessels coming from the southern coast of Lake Superior, known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes", to the Soo Locks.[1] All vessels entering or leaving Lake Superior must past Whitefish Point. Whitefish Point Light is arguably the most important light on Lake Superior. The Whitefish Point area has more shipwrecks than any other area in Lake Superior.[14]
The original structure was outfitted with Lewis lamps, which were thereafter upgraded to a fourth order Fresnel lens. The current structure, while modern looking, is a Civil War relic. Built in 1861, the iron skeletal steel framework was designed to relieve stress caused by high winds. A similar design is used at Manitou Island Light in Lake Superior. It was equipped with a third order Fresnel lens.
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Big Sable Point Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road, Mason County, Michigan, USA
Lookout Point Road, Glenwood Beach, Michigan, USA
US-41, US-41, 49918, Grant Township, Michigan, USA
Sugar Island Ferry Acess, I 75 Business, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA
North Lighthouse Drive, 49436, Little Point Sable, Michigan, USA
Power Line Trail, Homestead, Michigan, USA
West Loomis Street, 49431, Ludington, Michigan, USA
Becker Road, Alger County, Michigan, USA
Munising Range Lights
Constructed in 1907, this front and rear range lights still operates and assist ships entering the east channel of Munising Bay. The rear range light is located two blocks south at the end of Hickory Street.
604 West Munising Avenue, Munising
East Depeyster Street, 49701, Mackinaw City, Michigan, USA
During the summer of 1838, Lieutenant James T. Homans sailed 1,825 miles on Lake Huron and Lake Michigan inspecting existing lighthouses and selecting sites for newly authorized lighthouses. As part of his trip report, Homans recommended a light near Mackinaw to mark the narrowest part of the Straits of Mackinac:
A beacon-light, near the town of Mackinaw, has my strongest recommendation; the large amount of commerce passing through the straits near there, calls for the protection and safeguard such a light would render. [That] the narrowest part of the strait is opposite this point of course increases the dangers to the navigation just there, especially in the night. My own experience, in many voyages through them, has acquainted me with the difficulty of finding this narrow pass, or entering the harbor of Mackinaw in the dark, without some such guide as a beacon, properly located, would afford. The western point of this harbor I deem the best site, because the land is considerably higher than on the eastern side, and commands a better range for vessels approaching from either east or west.
Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse nearing completion in 1892
In 1837, Lieutenant Pendergrast had selected a site for the construction of Waugoshance Lighthouse to mark the western approach to the straits, but this lighthouse wasn’t completed until 1851, the same year Cheboygan Lighthouse was built to help mark the southeastern entrance to the straits. The Lighthouse Board noted in 1865 that a lighthouse was needed near Fort Michilmackinac and selected McGuplin Point, a site two miles west of the fort, for its erection. McGulpin Point Lighthouse was placed in operation on June 18, 1869, but in 1888, the Board requested $25,000 to move McGulpin Point Lighthouse to Old Mackinac Point, just east of Fort Michilmackinac, stating that there the light would be “visible to vessels approaching form either direction.”
Construction of a light and fog signal at Old Point Mackinac was authorized by Congress on March 2, 1889, but only $5,500 was provided for a steam fog signal. A deed for the fog signal site was obtained in June 1890, and construction materials were landed on the point that same month. Work on the fog signal began on July 1 and was completed October 9, 1890. Installed in duplicate, the ten-inch steam whistle commenced operation on November 5, 1890.
When Congress authorized the construction of a lighthouse on Old Mackinac Point, it was with the provision that McGulpin Point Lighthouse be discontinued. The Lighthouse Board objected to the loss of one of its lights, and wrote: “There is great doubt as to the expediency of this, and it is hoped that when appropriation is made for Mackinac Point, the provision for extinguishing McGulpin’s Point light will be stricken out. Mackinac Point is low and scraggy, with a natural elevation of not more than 6 or 8 feet above the lake, while McGulpin’s Point is 70 feet high and upward. If McGulpin’s Point light be retained, as will best serve the interests of navigation, Mackinac Point may be built, of a moderate power and elevation, and the cost of construction be considerably reduced.”
Congress provided $20,000 for building a lighthouse on Old Mackinac Point on March 3, 1891, and the provision regarding McGulpin Point must have been removed, as it would remain active for several more years. Bids for supplying the metalwork and constructing the tower and dwelling and Old Mackinac Point were solicited. A contract for the metalwork was made on October 10, 1891, and the material was delivered to the lighthouse depot in Detroit on January 17, 1892, but no bids were received for erecting the tower and dwelling. This work was readvertised on March 19, 1892, and the lowest of six bids, $13,722 by John P. Schmitt of Detroit, was accepted.
Work on the lighthouse began in May 1892, and the following description of the effort was contained in the Lighthouse Board’s report for that year:
The station consists of the lighthouse tower and keepers’ dwellings, the fog signal, the outbuilding or barn, and the oil house. The tower is a cylindrical brick shaft on a base of limestone ashlar. It is 13 feet 4 inches in diameter outside, 45 feet high to the gallery, and 50 feet to the focal plane. It is built of buff-colored brick, and is surmounted by a circular iron gallery and an octagonal fourth order lantern. The walls are constructed with air spaces, and the interior contains a circular iron staircase and a watchroom 8 feet 8 inches diameter at the top. The tower is connected with and forms the northwest corner of the keepers’ dwellings, from which it is separated by a service room, leaving an external entrance and porch. The dwelling, a two-story structure, is arranged as two separate houses under one roof. A lobby measuring 4 feet by 6 feet, adjoining the service room, gives access to both dwellings. The east dwelling contains a parlor, a dining room and a sitting room and kitchen on the first floor. The west dwelling contains a spare room, a living room, and a kitchen on the first floor, and each is provided with pantries and vestibules. Each has three bedrooms in the second story. The finish throughout is white pine, varnished, except the floors of the first story and the staircase and wainscoting, which are of hard wood. Each dwelling has a cistern in the cellar, and there is a good well in the rear, with a pump near the kitchen door of each house. The exterior of the building, as in the case of the tower, is of buff brick with base of ashlar and trimmings of Indiana limestone. The roofs are tin tiling, painted bright red.
The fog signal is just to the eastward of the dwellings and consists of a frame structure 22 by 40 feet in plan, covered with corrugated iron outside and smooth iron inside, and contains duplicate boilers and machinery, and 10-inch steam whistles.
About 54 feet south and to the rear of the dwelling there is a framed one and one-half story outbuilding, [a barn], 16 by 24 feet in plan, covered with boards and battens. The upper portion is shingled and the roof is covered with asphaltic slag.
The oil house, situated in the southeast corner of the light-house site, about 150 feet from the tower, is a circular iron structure capable of storing 360 gallons of mineral oil at a time, in 5-gallon cans.
The land on which the light-station at Old Mackinac Point stands consists of three lots, each measuring 50 by 170 feet, making in all a site measuring 150 by 170 feet, facing north towards the Straits of Mackinac. A road 40 feet wide runs in front of the reservation. The Government owns the beach on the north side of the road.
Aerial view of lighthouse in 1945showing radiobeacon.
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
A fourth-order, revolving, Sautter, Lemonier & Co. Fresnel lens was installed in the lantern room and produced a red flash every ten seconds. The lens had ten flash panels and was revolved by a clockwork mechanism powered by a suspended weight that had to be wound up every three hours. The light was placed in operation on October 25, 1892.
After the station was finished, the Lighthouse Board noted that the fog signal was too close to the dwelling and needed to be moved fifty feet east. As the fog signal building was just 7½ feet from the station’s eastern property line, this move required the acquisition of additional land. Mackinaw City owned the desired parcel, which it planned to use as a public park and refused to give it up. Condemnation proceedings were initiated in 1899, and three commissioners appointed to the case ruled that Mackinaw City should be awarded $400 for the land and $1,500 should be paid for “damages to adjacent property.” Objections were filed in December 1900, but the court took until 1904 to rule that just the $400 award to the city was justified.
Congress provided the compensatory $400 on March 3, 1905, and work on a new brick fog signal building began in May 1906. The boilers and whistles were transferred from the old building in time to be placed in operation in 1907. The old fog signal building was moved behind the new one and used for storage.
The signature of Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse was changed from flashing red to flashing white on September 1, 1913, the same time an incandescent-oil-vapor lamp was substituted for one that burned kerosene. These changes increased the light’s candlepower from 1,100 to 26,000. In 1929, the illuminant was changed from oil vapor to electricity. A Cunningham air whistle was installed in the fog signal building in 1933, and in 1937 a radiobeacon was placed in commission at the station.
Two keepers, a head keeper and an assistant keeper, were assigned to Old Mackinac from 1890 until 1909, when a second assistant keeper was added to the station. The lighthouse only had four head keepers during its sixty-seven years of operation.
After eight years at Waugoshance Lighthouse, George W. Marshall was transferred to become the first head keeper at Old Mackinac Point. George was a veteran of the Civil War and one of five sons of William Marshall, longtime ordnance sergeant at Fort Mackinac, who became lighthouse keepers. In 1900, George’s brother Charles had his health affected in an incident where he became stranded in a boatswain’s chair while painting St. Helens Lighthouse. Charles was transferred to Old Mackinac Point after the incident to serve as his brother’s assistant, and George E. Leggatt, who had been the assistant at Old Mackinac Point, took the place of Charles as keeper at St. Helena Island. Charles served at Old Mackinac Point for two years until his health deteriorated to the point that he had to be hospitalized at Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City.
George and Margaret Marshall never had any children of their own, but after Charles was institutionalized and Charles’ wife died, George and Margaret adopted some of Charles’ children. One of these, Chester, would later become a lighthouse keeper and serve at Manitowoc Lighthouse for nearly thirty years.
When George Marshall retired in 1919, his son James, whom George and Margaret had adopted in the 1880s and who had been serving as keeper at White Shoal Lighthouse, took charge of Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse. James served as keeper at the station until a stroke forced his retirement in 1940. In total, members of the Marshall family were in charge of the lighthouse for fifty years.
Henrik G. Olsen served as head keeper from 1941 to 1951, and he was followed by John P. Campbell, who was in charge of the station until 1957, when the lighthouse was made unnecessary and discontinued following the completion of Mackinac Bridge. Keeper Campbell was transferred to Point Betsie Lighthouse, where he served until his death in 1963.
Mackinac Island State Park Commission purchased Old Point Mackinac Lighthouse in 1960 and incorporated it into Michilmackinac State Park. After $70,000 in restoration work, the lighthouse was opened in 1972 as the focal point of Michilmackinac Maritime Park. Budget constraints and falling attendance led to the closure of the lighthouse in 1990.
A fundraising effort was launched in 1996 to raise $2.2 million to restore the lighthouse and reopen it to the public. One key member of this effort was Jim Belisle, whose great-grandfather, John P. Schmitt, built the lighthouse. In 2004, the lighthouse was reopened as a “restoration in progress,” and the following year the station’s barn, which had been moved to a maintenance area in the 1960s, was returned to its rightful place behind the lighthouse. In 2007, 32,933 visited the lighthouse, many attracted by the opportunity to climb the tower for an unparalleled view of the Straits of Mackinac.
Keepers:
Head: George W. Marshall (1890 – 1919), James M. Marshall (1919 – 1940), Henrik G. Olsen (1941 – 1951), John P. Campbell (1951 – 1957).
First Assistant: Joseph C. Barnum (1890 – 1895), George Blake (1895 – 1899), George E. Leggatt (1899 – 1900), Charles Marshall (1900 – 1902), Edward Mallette (1902 – 1906), Everritt C. Sterritt (1906 – 1911), William Barnum (1911 – 1919), Chauncey P. Bliss (1919 – ), Henrik G. Olsen (at least 1921), William A. Chapman ( – 1933), William C. Kincaide (1933), Henrik G. Olsen (1933 – 1941), John P. Campbell (1944 – 1951), John Marken (1951 – 1957).
Second Assistant: William A. Chapman (1909 – at least 1921), Leslie L. Storr (at least 1939 – at least 1940).
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Petoskey Pierhead Lighthouse
In 1896, George E. Sprang, a real estate and insurance agent, published the short picture book Petoskey and Little Traverse Bay, extolling the virtues of the area. Claiming that no other city in the northwest was so naturally attractive, the book began thus:
Throned on a noble amphitheater of hills, upon the south shore of a beautiful bay five miles broad and nine deep, environed all the way around by broken ranges of lofty heights, makes Petoskey unrivaled for the beauty of its outlook, each street and block having its own peculiar view; for its health-inspiring purity of atmosphere; and for its wide fame as a popular summer resort. Its streets and homes overlook the entire bay and its surrounding hills, and a succession of famous summer resort villages along the water’s edge clear around the bay. …In a few years there will be a broad boulevard along the shore all the way around the bay, lined the whole distance with summer cottages and permanent villas, parks, hotels and boat landings.
Petoskey Lighthouse in 1913
Photograph courtesy National Archives
Named after the Ottawa Chief Ignatius Petosega, Petoskey is situated at the southeast corner of Little Traverse Bay. In westerly winds, the lake steamers had difficulty offloading summer visitors at Petoskey, prompting Congress to pass an act on August 17, 1895, authorizing construction of breakwaters to protect the landing pier. One breakwater, connected to shore, was built west of the landing pier, and a second detached breakwater was built to the north.
Work on the breakwaters commenced in 1896, and in 1899, a metal post with a lamp house at its base was placed fourteen feet from the outer end of the western breakwater. Two lantern lights, a red one above a white one, were exhibited from the post starting on July 1, 1899. A six-foot-tall timber protection was built on the north end of the breakwater in 1900, and its angle was enclosed to form a storehouse. The schooner Willia Loutit damaged the pierhead lights on July 11, 1900, but repairs, paid for by the schooner’s owners, were soon made.
In 1903, structural steel and cast-iron metalwork were ordered to enclose the pier’s metal post, but the work was evidently not carried out until 1912. The resulting thirty-four-foot-tall lighthouse resembled an inverted funnel and consisted of a pyramidal base, a vertical mid-section, and an ornate lantern room. This funnel-like style of lighthouse was also deployed on piers at five other Lake Michigan cities: Waukegan, Illinois and at Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin
On April 30, 1912, one hour after returning home from Lockwood Hospital, where he had spent three weeks suffering from heart disease, forty-seven-year-old Will Hurkett shot himself in the head with a revolver. Hurkett had been keeper of the light since it was established in 1899 and was believed to have been mentally unbalanced at the time of the shooting due to his illness and other troubles, including his wife being an inmate at Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City for nearly a year. Keeper Hurkett left behind four children, two of whom were still living at home.
On May 10, 1913 the characteristic of the pierhead light at Petoskey was changed to a red flash every four seconds, and the following year, the intensity of the light was increased to thirty-five candlepower.
During a severe storm in December 1924, the lighthouse was washed from the breakwater and destroyed. A newspaper account noted that the “self-lighting lighthouse” had been discontinued for the season on December 8, just six days before it was swept off the breakwater. A temporary light was displayed from an unpainted post until 1930, when a concrete foundation was constructed on the breakwater, and a new light was displayed from a thirty-foot, skeletal, steel tower, painted red.
In 2009, long-awaited repairs to Petoskey’s breakwater were made after the Army Corps of Engineers was granted funds for the project through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As part of the work, the existing cylindrical light tower was removed from the pier, giving local lighthouse enthusiasts Gordon and Carolyn Bourland the thought that it would be the perfect time to build a replica of Petoskey’s funnel-style lighthouse. The Bourlands enlisted the help of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, but when the plan was presented to the Coast Guard, it was rejected since private aids to navigation are not permitted on piers. Undaunted, the backers of the project contacted the Petoskey Parks and Recreation Commission, and at a public hearing held on June 2, 2010, the commission passed a resolution asking the city council to endorse a plan to place the lighthouse in Sunset Park, overlooking Petoskey Harbor.
In August 2010, the Petoskey City Council rejected the use of Sunset Park for the lighthouse, but a month later they approved placing the structure in Quarry Park. Moran Iron Works of Onaway, who had recently built a new lantern room for McGulpin Point Lighthouse, estimated that the replica could be built at a cost between $225,000 and $250,000. The Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association is trying to raise $300,000 to fund the lighthouse’s construction and to provide an endowment for its maintenance. As none of the six funnel-style lighthouses have survived, having a replica in Petoskey would be sure to attract a lot of attention.
Head Keepers: William Hurkett (1900 – 1912).
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Charlevoix South Pier Light House
Named after the French explorer Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Michigan was first settled in the early 1850s and then incorporated as a village in 1879. Charlevoix is situated on an isthmus between Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix and encircles tiny Round Lake, which, along with the Pine River, serves as a link between the two larger lakes.
1885 tower on north pier
With all this shoreline, it isn’t surprising that Charlevoix developed into a resort destination, featuring extravagant hotels and three summer associations. An early admirer of the village called it “Charlevoix the Beautiful,” and ever since the local Chamber of Commerce has been using the appellation in its promotional material.
The first effort to improve access from Lake Michigan to Round Lake was in 1868, when a roughly 100-foot-wide channel between the two lakes was dredged and lined by close piling. In 1876, work began on replacing the piling with cribwork piers, and in 1885, a square, open-frame tower topped by an iron lantern was built at the lighthouse depot in Detroit and installed atop the Lake Michigan end of the north pier. As part of this work, nineteen crossties in the cribwork were replaced with sound ones so that trestles could be secured to them to support a 750-foot-long elevated walkway, erected to provide access to the lighthouse in inclement weather conditions. The work was begun in July and finished on August 28, 1885, allowing the pierhead light to commence operation on September 1, 1885. A fifth-order Henry-Lepaute Fresnel lens was used in the tower’s lantern room to produce a fixed red light at a focal plane of thirty-seven feet above the lake.
A temporary keeper must have kept the light for the first few weeks, as on October 3, 1885, a local publication announced that Wright Ripley, the regularly appointed keeper who had served as an assistant keeper at Port Austin for two years, had arrived at Charlevoix on the Lawrence, accompanied by his wife, three sons, and their household goods.
Pierhead lighthouse in 1913
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
A shed, measuring eight by ten feet and standing eight feet high, was built at the shore end of the elevated walk in 1890 to store oil and supplies. By this time, the channel between the piers had shoaled up, forcing larger vessels to tie up to the piers and offload their freight. Keeper Ripley complained that these vessels smoked up the lighthouse and caused the light to tremble.
In 1904, 720 running feet of elevated metal walkway replaced the dilapidated wooden walkway. A fog bell, tolled by an electrically powered striking machine, was mounted on the lakeward face of the lighthouse in 1909. A brick oil house was added to the station in 1910.
Before Pine River was enlarged to facilitate boat traffic between Lake Michigan and Round Lake, a wooden dock was extended into Lake Michigan just north of the river’s mouth. Vessels could then tie up along the dock to be filled with lumber cut from the surrounding area. Amos Fox and his business partner, Hiram Rose, were the visionaries responsible for the construction of the dock. Mr. Fox lived at 103 Park Avenue in a lovely, Victorian dwelling. In 1908, the home was purchased by the government to be used as a dwelling for the keeper of Charlevoix Lighthouse. The keeper originally lived in a dwelling that was purchased as part of the lighthouse reservation, but after this burned down, Keeper Ripley had been living in a leased residence.
In time for the opening of navigation in 1914, the wooden lighthouse was relocated to the southern pier and a skeletal, steel, pyramidal tower was erected on the north pier. An occulting white light, produced by a lens lantern with an electric incandescent bulb, was exhibited from atop the new metal tower at a height of sixty-one feet. In 1938, the fog bell on the south pierhead was superseded by a type “C” air diaphone, which sounded a two-second blast every twenty seconds. Charlevoix residents quickly became accustomed to the new fog signal and affectionately called it Ferdinand.
Before it had been retired, the fog bell served an interesting purpose on February 28, 1929. On that date, Ernest Hutzler, who was keeper of the light at that time, operated the fog bell to guide three automobiles to Charlevoix from Beaver Island through a dense fog. This was the first known instance of cars running across frozen Lake Michigan between these two places.
Lights on north and south piers in 1935
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
The pierhead light at Charlevoix was looked after by a keeper until 1940. Eight years later, the old wooden lighthouse was replaced by the present steel tower, fabricated in Milwaukee. A piece of the original lighthouse still exists, as its lantern room was transferred to the new tower. A newspaper article from 1948 contained the following in reference to the old wooden tower: “Many of its beams were so rotten that Coast Guardsmen say they often wondered that it did not collapse during a storm.”
No longer needed after automation of the lighthouse, the former keeper’s dwelling was sold in 1944 to Edward J. Smith, a local resident, for $2,550 and then purchased by Dr. Walter and Betty Hoffmann in 1962. Betty Hoffmann later donated the residence to the City of Charlevoix, which razed the dwelling in 1984 to create Hoffmann Park. A metal plaque in the park carries a depiction of the old dwelling.
In 2005, Charlevoix South Pier Lighthouse, deemed excess by the Coast Guard, was offered at no cost to eligible entities, including federal, state, and local agencies, non-profit corporations, and educational organizations under the provisions of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000. After the review process, the National Park Service awarded the lighthouse to the City of Charlevoix in 2008.
In March 2009, Charlevoix Historical Society was awarded $29,666 for work on Charlevoix South Pier Lighthouse from the Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program, which is administered by the State Historic Preservation Office and funded by proceeds from the sale of Michigan’s “Save our Lights” license plate. Evidence of this work was clearly apparent in August 2009, as the lighthouse, which had been white since 1968 was painted bright red, a color it had sported for many years.
Head Keepers: Wright Ripley (1885 – 1923), Captain William H. Shields (1923 – 1924), Everitt C. Sterritt (1924 – 1935), Ernest G. Hutzler (1935 – 1940).
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Mission Point Light house
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Nineteen-mile-long Old Mission Peninsula, which divides Grand Traverse Bay into a west arm and an east arm, was first settled by Peter Doughtery, a Presbyterian minister sent by the Presbyterian Board of Missions to establish a church and school for Native Americans. Doughtery originally selected Elk Rapids for the site of his mission, but in 1842, at the behest of Chief Ahgosa of Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Doughtery relocated to the harbor near the northern tip of the peninsula. Ten years later, Doughtery moved across Grand Traverse Bay to Omena, on the Leelanau Peninsula, where he established a “New Mission,” and the former site was known forever after as “Old Mission.” Still standing, Doughtery’s 1842 residence at Old Mission is now run by the Peter Dougherty Society.
Mission Point Lighthouse with boathouse in 1913
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
With its weather moderated by the surrounding waters, Old Mission Peninsula rarely has frost during the growing season, making it an ideal agricultural area. Dougherty planted the first cherry tree on the peninsula in 1852, and cherry farming eventually surpassed the lumber industry as the main source of income for inhabitants of the peninsula. Today, the peninsula is known for its wineries, several of which are open to the public.
In October 1863, a committee, assigned by the Lighthouse Board to visit potential sites for lighthouses along the Great Lakes and in New England, recommended that a lighthouse be built at the tip of Old Mission Peninsula to guide maritime traffic in Grand Traverse Bay. The following report from the committee appeared in the Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board:
It appears from the notes of Colonel Graham, furnished to this committee, that there is an extensive trade in the two arms of this bay, the coasts and back country of which are quite thickly settled. At the heads of both these arms there are excellent harbors and good anchorage, and vessels should be aided in reaching them. At their very heads at least three fathoms of water are found, and below from four to twenty fathoms.
The trade in both now consists of lumber, amounting to about eighteen millions of feet, of 10,000 cords of wood, of $100,000 worth of furs, and $50,000 worth of agricultural products, per annum, altogether about $378,000 per annum. Traverse City, situated at the head of the west arm, is the terminus of an extensive railroad, which will probably be completed within two years.
Congress had appropriated $6,000 for a lighthouse at the northern tip of the peninsula on March 3, 1859, but a decade later, land for the structure still had not be purchased due, in part, to the intervening Civil War. In 1868, the Lighthouse Board noted: “The necessity for the construction of the light-house never having been at all urgent, the money has not been expended. Further examination into the matter will be made, and if it does not appear that the station is required the appropriation will be transferred to the surplus fund.”
The “examination into the matter” must have determined that the lighthouse was needed, as land for it was purchased in 1869. Construction was carried out during 1870, and the lighthouse was lit for the first time on September 10 of that year by Jerome M. Pratt, who had previously served as keeper of Skillagalee Lighthouse. On the first page of the journal Keeper Pratt kept during his six years at Mission Point, he wrote, “This journal was delivered 15th August, 1870, to J.M. Pratt first light-keeper of Mission Point lighthouse.” Each day, Pratt meticulously recorded the weather, wind direction, and the number of ships passing the point. Over the years of his service, it is easy to see the rise in steamships. In October 1870, sixty-nine sailing ships were noted passing the lighthouse along with fifty-one steamers, but five years later, things had reversed, as there were 101 steamers and seventy-five sailing craft. Only once did Keeper Pratt record anything except official station business. This was on October 8, 1876, when the following cryptic note was made in the left margin of page twenty-one: “Eddie Died: 7:00 p.m.” Eddie was the adopted infant son of Jerome and Araminta Pratt.
Keeper Pratt was removed from office in 1877, reportedly for political reasons, and replaced by seventy-one-year-old John M. McHarry. Four years later, Keeper McHarry drowned after jumping over the side of the steamer City of Traverse on August 1, 1881. John Lane, the light’s third keeper, had lost both of his parents by the time he was fourteen, and subsequently served on a whaling ship and as captain of a Great Lakes steamer before entering the Lighthouse Service. Keeper Lane passed away on December 12, 1906, and Sarah, his wife, looked after the light until the following March, making her the only female keeper of the light. Though Sarah was the official keeper for just a short period, for at least eight years preceding her husband’s passing, she had total charge of the tower and light due to her husband'’s failing health. While Sarah minded the light, John looked after the books.
Mission Point Lighthouse consists of a one-and-a-half-story frame dwelling, measuring thirty by twenty-eight feet, with a square tower protruding from its lakeward gable. The center of the lantern room is thirty-five feet above the ground, but the bluff on which the lighthouse stands gave the fixed white light, produced by the tower’s fifth-order Fresnel lens, a focal plane of forty-eight feet above the bay.
Over the years, a few additions were made to the lighthouse. In 1889, a 200-foot-long and 4-foot-high crib was built and filled with stone to protect the shore in front of the lighthouse. That same year, a brick cistern was built, and a pump was placed in the kitchen to draw the water. A new woodshed was put up in 1894, and in 1898, a brick oil house was added to store the volatile kerosene, which was being used as the illuminant at that time.
Mission Point Lighthouse
Photograph courtesy National Archives
In 1911, a bell buoy, painted with red and black horizontal stripes, was established off Mission Point to mark the northern end of the shoals that extend from the peninsula. Though its importance had been reduced, Mission Point Lighthouse continued to be staffed until June 30, 1933, when Emil C. Johnson, its last keeper, left. An automated acetylene light was installed in the lantern room and continued to server mariners.
In 1938, the offshore bell buoy, which by then was lit, was replaced by a new structure known as Mission Point Light. This modern light took over the function of Mission Point Lighthouse, which was deactivated. The following description of the new navigational aid was given in the Annual Report of the Lake Carriers’ Association:
Mission Point Light was established in 19 feet on the shoal spot previously marked by Mission Point Lighted Bell Buoy 1. The structure is a circular black cylinder of interlocking steel sheet piling filled with stone and capped with concrete. On the pier thus provided is erected a skeleton steel tower and small steel house elevated above the pier deck on four circular cylinders for protection from ice and wave action. The light is a 200 m.m. lantern fitted with a battery operated electric light showing a white flash of 330 c.p., 1 second duration every 10 seconds.
The steel skeletal tower atop the circular pier has since been replaced by a cylindrical tower.
Mission Point Lighthouse Reservation originally consisted of 142 acres, but in March 1931, all but 5.38 acres of it were transferred to the State of Michigan for public park purposes. The remaining piece of the reservation, which included the lighthouse, was declared surplus on September 24, 1938. Residents of Peninsula Township collected funds and purchased the lighthouse and remaining piece of the reservation for $1,001 in 1948. Forty-three people, now known as the founding families, donated an average of forty-five dollars to raise the needed money. The acquired property was incorporated into the surrounding park, all of which is now owned by the township.
Between 1933 and 1948, vandals removed the Fresnel lens and a beautiful hand-carved mahogany railing from the lighthouse. After the township acquired the property, Ed Andrus took up residence in the lighthouse and worked on restoring the structure. By 1955, the station’s shed was being used as a refreshment stand.
Caretakers lived at the lighthouse until 2008, when the interior of the lighthouse was opened to the public. For a small fee, the public can now stay at the lighthouse and serve as modern-day “lighthouse keepers,” performing minor maintenance and greeting visitors.
In 2011, a fifth-order Fresnel lens, the same size of lens that was used at Mission Point, was loaned to the lighthouse by the Coast Guard. The lens was formerly used near Milwaukee and had been in storage at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.
Head Keepers: Jerome M. Pratt (1870 – 1877), John M. McHarry (1877 – 1881), John W. Lane (1881 – 1906), Sara E. Lane (1906 – 1907), James Davenport (1907 – 1919), William F. Green (1919 – 1924), Emil C. Johnson (1924 – 1933).
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Grand Traverse Lighthouse
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Michigan’s Lower Peninsula is thought by many to resemble a hand. The peninsula between Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron is often referred to as Michigan’s thumb, while thirty-mile-long Leelanau Peninsula, located between Lake Michigan and Grand Traverse Bay is occasionally known as the state’s little finger.
Grand Traverse Lighthouse in 1883, note construction year on lighthouse
Photograph courtesy National Archives
On September 28, 1850, Congress appropriated $4,000 for a lighthouse on the northern tip of Leelanau Peninsula. President Millard Fillmore signed an executive order on June 30, 1851, reserving 58.75 acres of public land for Grand Traverse Lighthouse, which was also known early on as Cat Head Lighthouse due to its proximity to Cat Head Point.
Construction at the site began in late 1851, with materials being transported by schooner to the point and then being lightered ashore. A two-room dwelling with an attached kitchen and shed was built for the keeper, a position first held by David Moon, and a thirty-foot-tall, conical, brick tower was erected nearby. A fixed light, produced by six lamps and fourteen-inch reflectors, was first exhibited in September 1852, but in 1857, the light source was changed to a fourth-order Fresnel lens.
Keeper Moon resigned after just one year at the lighthouse and was replaced by Philo Beers, who had previously been a Deputy United States Marshal. During Moon’s four years as keeper, the lighthouse was visited by pirates from nearby Beaver Island. James Strang had established himself as king of a Mormon splinter group on the island, and his followers were accused of night-time raids on the Michigan mainland. The pirates made off with all of Keeper Beers’ nets and their contents on one occasion and valuable lighthouse supplies on another.
Shortly after being placed in service, Grand Traverse Lighthouse was found to be poorly built and poorly situated. Located near the eastern side of the tip of the peninsula, the lighthouse was useful for vessels entering and leaving Grand Traverse Bay but wasn’t of much service to vessels on Lake Michigan. The original lighthouse was torn down and replaced in 1858 by a two-and-a-half-story dwelling, built using Milwaukee cream city brick and topped by a slate roof. The dwelling measured thirty by thirty-two feet, and one of its gable ends was adorned with a seven-foot-square wooden tower. A fifth-order Fresnel lens was used in the new lighthouse until 1870, when a fourth-order, Barbier and Finestre lens was installed. The Lighthouse Board called this upgrade “a very necessary and decided improvement.”
Philo Beers was no longer serving as keeper when the new lighthouse was built, but he and his son Henry, who would serve as keeper of the lighthouse from 1859 to 1861, used some of the material from the original keeper’s dwelling to build a house in nearby Northport.
In 1880, a new wood shed was built, and the dwelling’s cellar was drained and sealed with cement. A two-story barn was built near the lighthouse in 1891 with a pitched shingle roof. The barn received an addition in 1895, and in 1896 a brick oil house was constructed.
Station and fog signal before 1912
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
The Lighthouse Board noted in its annual report for 1895 that a fog signal at Grand Traverse Lighthouse was “deemed necessary to navigation” and requested $5,500 for its construction. Congress allocated the funds on July 1, 1898, and contracts were let for the project on January 20, 1899. A substantial structure, built of buff, pressed brick and topped by red, metal tiles, was completed in November 1899 on the shore roughly 140 feet southwest of the lighthouse. Duplicate ten-inch steam whistles, provided by George F. Motter & Sons of York, Pennsylvania under a contract with Ellicott Company of Baltimore, Maryland, were installed in the fog signal building and placed in operation on December 20, 1899. To provide a constant supply of water for the signal, a well was sunk twenty feet west of the building.
The extra workload created by the steam whistle required the assignment of an assistant keeper to the station, and in 1900, brick extensions were added to the dwelling to create two separate apartments for the keepers.
In 1933, an air diaphone, powered by air compressors driven by diesel engines, replaced the steam whistle. The most active year for the steam fog signal for which there are records was 1904, when it was in operation some 318 hours and consumed about 49 cords of wood.
The light was electrified in 1950, increasing its intensity to 15,000 candlepower. Keepers remained at Grand Traverse Lighthouse until 1972, when the lighthouse was replaced by an automated beacon mounted atop a skeletal tower.
The abandoned buildings slowly fell into disrepair until an organization, now known as Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum, was formed in 1984 with the goal of restoring the station and opening it to the public. After raccoons, squirrels, and bats had been evicted from the lighthouse, half of the structure was opened in 1986, while the rest housed a caretaker. A fourth-order Fresnel lens, formerly used at Michigan’s Alpena Lighthouse, is on exhibit in the lighthouse mounted atop the original pedestal from Grand Traverse Lighthouse.
Bobbie Ditzler served as the first president of Friends of the Lighthouse, which became Grand Traverse Lighthouse Foundation, and then Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum in 2000. Bobbie’s great uncle, Oscar Dame, served as assistant keeper at Grand Traverse Lighthouse in 1907 and then from 1923 to 1938.
Grand Traverse Lighthouse in 1914, after being converted into two apartments
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
Born at Poverty Island Lighthouse, Doug McCormick moved to the lighthouse in 1923 at the age of eight, when his father, James McCormick, transferred to Grand Traverse from South Fox Island. Doug lived in the lighthouse until 1935, when he enlisted in the Coast Guard, but after his father retired in 1938, he did not see the lighthouse again until he moved to Traverse City in 1984. Doug McCormick helped with renovations at the lighthouse, and then from 1990 to 2002, he lived in his childhood home, serving as caretaker of the museum and sharing memories with visitors. During his childhood, Doug played along the shoreline during the summer and skated on the frozen waters surrounding the station in the winter. As he grew older, he helped his father polish the lens and trim the lamp’s wick to keep the light burning brightly.
Doug was able to track down a potbellied stove used in the lighthouse, and brought back his mother’s pump organ and dining room table.
Keeper James McCormick was responsible for much of the beach stonework found on the lighthouse grounds, including a stone birdhouse, a stone crown planter, and stone steps. Bette McCormick Olli, one of John and Mary McCormick’s twelve children, wrote a pamphlet on life at the lighthouse entitled, The Way It Was, which includes the following:
Ma would sometimes make rag dolls for us with button eyes and bodies filled with sand. The sand would shift and the dolls felt as though they were alive. Store bought dolls were mostly for ‘looking at’ and not to be handled carelessly.
In September 2003, ownership of Grand Traverse Lighthouse was transferred from the Coast Guard to Michigan Department of Parks and Recreation.
Instituted in 2004, a keeper program now allows lighthouse lovers to stay in the assistant keeper’s quarters in the north side of the lighthouse for week-long stints while greeting visitors and providing historical information about the station.
Keepers:
Head: David Moon (1852 – 1853), Philo Beers (1853 – 1857), Gilman Chase (1857 – 1859), Henry J. Beers (1859 – 1861), Solomon Case (1861 – 1862), Dr. Henry R. Shetterly (1862 – 1873), Priscilla Poncher (1873), John C. Hall (1873 – 1874), Peter Nelson (1874 – 1890), George Buttars (1890 – 1918), Reynold W. Johnson (1918 – 1923), James McCormick (1923 – 1938), Paul A. Walters (1938 – 1940), Ernest G. Hutzler (1940 – 1946), Frederick W. Leslie (1946 – 1950), John H. Olson (1950 – 1952), Edwin I. Johnson (1952 – 1954), Carl Walters (1954 – 1955), Elbert McKinney (1955 – 1958), John Marken (1958 – 1967), Terrance Herring (1967 – 1972).
Assistant: William P. Wilson (1899 – 1903), William F. Green (1903 – 1907), Hector Stebbins (1907), Oscar E. Dame (1907), Nels Nelson (1907), Frank Taylor (1907 – 1908), Emil C. Johnson (1908 – 1910), John C. Fish (1910 – at least 1912), James Wachter (at least 1913 – 1914), Ira Flagstad (1914 – at least 1917), Emil C. Johnson (at least 1919 – 1923), Guy Patterson (1923), Lewellyn A. Van Natter (1923), Oscar E. Dame (1928 – 1938), Allen P. Cain (1938 – 1946), James M. Haley (1955 – 1958), John Tregembo (1958 – ).
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Robert Manning - Empire Lighthouse
Empire, located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan and now surrounded by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, was named after the schooner Empire, which was icebound in the area during a storm in 1865. George Aylsworth operated the first lumber mill at Empire between 1873 and 1883, and Potter and Struthers built a second mill in 1885. After purchasing the Potter and Struthers mill in 1887, the T. Wilce Company developed it into the Empire Lumber Company, which became one of the largest hardwood mills in the region, capable of outputting up to twenty million feet of lumber each year. Docks were built to facilitate the export of the lumber, but not a lighthouse. When the Empire Lumber Company’s mill burned down in 1917, it was not rebuilt, as most of the area’s virgin timber had been harvested.
Born in 1927, Robert H. Manning was a life-long resident of Empire and worked as an insurance salesman and then as a civilian worker in supply for the Empire Air Force Station. In his spare time, Manning was an avid fisherman, and while returning to shore after an outing on Lake Michigan, he often lamented that there wasn’t a lighthouse at Empire to guide him home. After Manning passed away in December 1989, his family and friends raised funds to erect a lighthouse in his honor. While many think the lighthouse resembles the tower at Point Betsie, with three openings on one face and the tower flaring out to support the lantern room, the Manning family used an architect in Traverse City to come up with their own design. Robert H. Manning Memorial Lighthouse was dedicated in 1991.
The lighthouse is listed in the Coast Guard’s Light List as Manning Light, a private aid to navigation that emits a white flash every four seconds at a focal plane of thirty-eight feet and is maintained from April 15 to November 15.
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Lower Tahquamenon Falls
Tahquamenon Falls State Park
41382 West M-123, Paradise, MI 49768
Phone # (906) 492-3415, Fax # (906) 492-3590, TDD # (906) 492-3812
For camping reservations, call 1-800-44-PARKS
Tahquamenon Falls is an easy drive along M-123, the highway offers a loop from Highway M-28 through Paradise, past Tahquamenon Falls State Park, through Newberry and back to M-28. This beautiful falls in Tahquamenon Falls State Park is hidden in the forest along the Tahquamenon River and is easily accessible for those seeking the quiet and solitude of the Upper Peninsula wilderness.
Tahquamenon Falls State Park encompasses close to 52,000 acres stretching over 13 miles. Most of this is undeveloped woodland without roads, buildings or power lines. Centerpiece of the park, and the very reason for its existence, is the Tahquamenon River with its waterfalls.
The Upper Falls is one of the largest waterfalls east of the Mississippi. It has a drop of nearly 50 feet and is more than 200 feet across. A maximum flow of more than 50,000 gallons of water per second has been recorded cascading over its precipice.
A paved pathway (.4 mile) leads from the parking lot at the Upper Falls, through an old growth forest to the observation platforms at the crest of the Falls and is handicap accessible. Steps lead to the bottom of the falls where the water crashes into the Tahquamenon River. There is a 4 mile hiking trail along the river to the Lower Falls.
A restaurant and gift shop are located at the Upper Falls. Originally a logging camp, the building is a replica of the original camp, Camp 33. There is a large deck with a fireplace and places to sit and relax. There are picnic tables scattered near the trail entrance for enjoying a picnic lunch. Handicap accessible restrooms are located by the entrance to the trail that leads to the Upper Falls.
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Little Traverse Lighthouse
Little Traverse Lighthouse is part of a gated community and is thus most easily seen from the water. Harbor Point Association allows Harbor Springs Area Historical Society to give tours of the lighthouse roughly once every three years as a fundraiser.
The lighthouse is owned by Harbor Point Association. Grounds/dwelling/tower closed.
Located in the northeast corner of Lake Michigan are two expansive bays: Grand Traverse Bay and Little Traverse Bay. Grand Traverse Lighthouse commenced operation in 1852 to mark the entrance to Grand Traverse Bay, but Little Traverse Bay remained without a lighthouse for several more years. On the north shore of Little Traverse Bay, Harbor Point extends out into the bay for nearly a mile, forming a fine natural harbor at Harbor Springs.
Little Traverse Lighthouse with bell tower in 1925
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
On March 13, 1871, the Michigan Legislature passed a resolution asking Congress for an appropriation for a lighthouse and fog bell for Little Traverse Bay. The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce asked the Lighthouse Board to investigate the necessity of the lighthouse, and the district’s engineer, Orlando M. Poe, was tasked with making a formal report. Referring to the harbor formed by Harbor Point, Poe wrote:
The harbor itself is excellent in every respect, easy of access, affording good anchorage, and a complete shelter from all winds.
A light-house of the fifth order, together with a fog-bell of 600 pounds, with Stevens’s striking-apparatus will make the harbor available.
In addition to its relation to the general commerce of Lake Michigan, the harbor has some local importance. This is increasing and doubtless will continue to do so.
The proposed aids to navigation should be placed at the extreme end of the point, on the south side of the harbor, as indicated on the accompanying tracing, and would cost about $12,000, which sum, for the purpose indicated, I respectfully recommend be included in the next annual estimates.
It took over a decade, but Congress finally appropriated $15,000 for the lighthouse on August 7, 1882. After title to the desired parcel on Harbor Point was acquired, materials and workers were landed at the site on May 14, 1884. By the end of June, the twenty-inch-thick stone foundation walls were in place, the first-floor joists were laid, and the brickwork had been carried up to a height of two feet. The red-brick lighthouse, consisting of an eight-and-a-half-foot-square tower attached to the southern end of a one-and-half-story dwelling, was completed on September 18, and the light was exhibited for the first time on September 25, 1884. A fourth-order L. Sautter, Lemonier & Co. Fresnel lens, installed in the tower’s decagonal, cast-iron lantern room, was used to beam forth a fixed red light at a focal plane of forty-one feet above the bay.
In 1887, a forty-five-foot-deep, two-inch drive well was sunk near the dwelling to provide water via a hand pump. Four years later, the station was connected to the city’s main, which provided a steady supply of water for domestic purposes and for protection against fire. A summer kitchen was added to the lighthouse in 1894.
Though a fog bell was mentioned in the original plans for the station, only a light was available to mariners until 1896, when a two-story, square, pyramidal, fog-bell tower, resting atop five brick piers, was erected. The lower portion of the tower was enclosed, and the 1,800-pound bell was hung in the open upper portion. Starting on June 1, 1896, the bell was struck a double blow every thirty seconds when needed. Prior to being installed at Little Traverse Lighthouse, the bell and striking mechanism had been used at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. On June 26, 1914, the characteristic of the fog bell was changed to a single blow every fifteen seconds.
Lighthouse and bell tower in 1914
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
A brick oil house was built in 1898 to store the volatile kerosene then being used as the illuminant in the lighthouse. A flagpole was erected in 1905, and in 1907 the station’s wooden sidewalks were replaced by 578 running feet of concrete walks.
Though the details regarding the structures at a light station are interesting to many, the keepers who looked after the light were the real soul of the lighthouse. The first two keepers of Little Traverse Lighthouse both had long tenures, with their combined service accounting for more than half of the time the light was staffed.
Not many lighthouses can claim a woman as its first keeper, but Little Traverse can. Elizabeth Whitney Van Riper Williams was born on Mackinac Island in 1844 and spent most of her childhood on Beaver Island, where she married Captain Clement Van Riper when just sixteen years old. Van Riper was appointed keeper of Beaver Island Harbor Lighthouse in 1869 and served in that role until November 29, 1872, when he drowned while trying to help a ship in distress. Elizabeth took charge of the light after her husband’s death and kept the position even after marrying Daniel Williams in 1876.
Desiring to live on the mainland, Elizabeth applied to be keeper of the newly built Little Traverse Lighthouse. During her time at Little Traverse, she would publish her best-selling biography A Child of the Sea and Life Among the Mormons, in which she records her arrival at her new assignment in 1884.
Just a few hours passed when we steamed into Little Traverse Harbor, and the “red light,” just like the one we had left, was flashing its rays over the waters of Little Traverse Bay for the first time. The water was calm and still. The “red light” shone deep into the quiet waters, and many eyes were watching the bright rays from the light-house tower, and the wish of their hearts had been gratified in having a light house on Harbor Point to guide steamers and vessels into the harbor. The evening was clear and the picture was a lovely one as we rounded the point so near the light. Some passengers said to me. “Here is your home. Don’t you know the red light is giving you a welcome?” Yes, it was all one’s heart could wish, yet I felt there was another I had left in the old home that was now just a little more dear to my heart.
We were met by friends and taken to their home for the night. Next morning we drove through the resort grounds to “Harbor Point Light House,” as it is known by the land people, but to the mariner it is “Little Traverse Light House. We were soon at work putting our house in order, and the beautiful lens in the tower seemed to be appealing to me for care and polishing, which I could not resist, and since that time I have given my best efforts to keep my light shining from the lighthouse tower.
Later in her time at Harbor Point, Elizabeth said:
Every evening as I climb my tower-steps I know that there are hundreds of other lightkeepers doing the same thing. I have many sleepless nights when storms are raging. My station is built of brick and stone, and is very comfortable and warm to live in. We lightkeepers feel a great sympathy with our sailors, for we know their eyes are watching to catch the welcome glimmer of the lights as they sail on the stormy deep. … Our lives are given to our work, and we feel the great responsibility resting upon us. We are faithful to the duties assigned us, and we keep our lamps trimmed and burning, a guide to mariners on the way to safe harbors of refuge.
After twenty-nine years at Harbor Point Lighthouse, Elizabeth retired and left the station on November 1, 1913 to live in nearby Charlevoix. Elizabeth’s replacement was veteran keeper Alfred C. Erickson, who had previously served as head keeper at Chicago Harbor Lighthouse and Calumet Harbor Lighthouse. While at Chicago Harbor, Keeper Erickson rendered assistance to thirteen people, saving lives in most of the cases. In an interview given one year after being assigned to Little Traverse Lighthouse, Erickson commented, “It’s the life-savers that always get the credit. We fellows are hired to keep the lights burning, but there isn’t a man in the service who wouldn’t risk his life and do his utmost to render assistance to anyone on the lakes. The average passenger on a lake steamer gives the light keepers little credit. The passengers depend on the captain for safety, but it is on the light keepers the captains have to depend.”
Lighthouse Service records show that Keeper Erickson continued his lifesaving heroics at Harbor Point. In 1915, he towed two disabled boats to safety, and in 1918, he rescued a woman who tumbled into the water while getting out of a boat. In 1923, Erickson picked up six men off the launch Evelyn, which had caught fire, and then helped extinguish the fire.
Keeper Erickson was also known for building model yachts. During the third-annual model-yacht races held in Little Traverse Bay in 1926, every boat vying for the A.C. Erickson trophy had been built by Keeper Erickson. After having served thirty years at the lighthouse, Keeper Erickson passed away in November 1942.
Accretion gradually built up Harbor Point until the lighthouse was situated a significant distance from the entrance to the harbor. On July 28, 1959, the commander of the Ninth Coast Guard District held a public hearing to receive feedback on the plan to discontinue Little Traverse Lighthouse and its fog bell and establish an automated light on a skeletal tower near the extremity of the point. When no adverse comments were received, the Coast Guard requested that the General Services Administration exchange the lighthouse property for a fifty-foot-square parcel owned by the Harbor Point Association, who had agreed to pay for the difference in property value in cash. After the transaction was completed, a forty-one-foot-tall skeletal tower was erected on the point in 1963 to display an automated flashing green light.
As Harbor Point remains an exclusive gated community controlled by the Harbor Point Association, the best public views of the lighthouse are from the water.
Head Keepers: Elizabeth Van Riper Williams (1884 – 1913), Alfred C. Erickson (1913 – 1942), Angus H. Phillips (1943 – 1946), Raymond H. Buttars (1947 – 1948), Henry J. Rocheleau (1949 – 1954), Herman Barr (1955), Frank A. Wollack (1956 – 1962).
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Peche Island Lighthouse
Isle aux Pêches, French for Fisheries Island, is a Canadian Island situated at the confluence of the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair. Though the island is known today by most Anglophones as Peche Island, for a period of time it was called Peach Island.
Peche Island Front Range Light in 1904
Photograph courtesy National Archives
On July 13, 1892, Congress passed an act that provided for a ship channel with a minimum depth of twenty feet to be dredged in the shallows of the connecting waters of the Great Lakes. The work was carried out over the next five years, and one of the improvements funded was a twenty-foot channel through Grosse Point Flats in Lake St. Clair.
Pile clusters marking the edge of this twenty-foot channel were carried away in January 1898, and it was decided that axial range lights should be built in shoal water north of Peche Island to mark the channel. Isle aux Peches Range Lights were established on April 15, 1898, with the front light consisting of a mast supported by a pile of clusters driven in nineteen feet of water. The mast was topped by a target and had a horizontal arm with two fixed white lens-lantern lights, spaced ten feet apart and displayed at a focal plane of eighteen feet. The rear light was similar in form but stood in eight feet of water, 4,650 feet southwest of the front light, and had a focal plane of thirty-eight feet.
John F. Kerby was hired as the first head keeper of the range lights, and he would have six different assistants helping him with the lights during the fourteen years he served at the station.
As part of what would become a recurring theme at Isle aux Peches, the range lights were carried away by ice in the spring of 1899, but new forty-foot-long piles had been driven by April 20, 1899, and two days later, lights, similar to the original range, were in place. On July 27, 1899, a tugboat carried away the front light, but it was re-established roughly a week later on August 4 at the expense of the tug’s owners. The front light was carried away by another vessel on September 17, 1899, but as it was impractical to determine the party responsible, the government picked up the tab for rebuilding the light.
Both range lights were again carried away by ice in the spring of 1900, but replacements were ready for operation on April 28, 1900. After rebuilding the lights in 1900, the Lighthouse Board noted: “The fact that the piles on which these two lights stand are always carried away by ice in the winter, and during the summer are once or twice run down by passing vessels, shows the need for structures of some strength and permanence which will serve as day beacons for the range and from which lights can be exhibited at night. The present arrangement has proven to be inadequate, as the light is not visible at times when it should be under reasonable atmospheric conditions. Something larger and more substantial is required.” The Board requested $12,000 so that crib lights could be built on the range with a skeletal tower for the rear light and a keeper’s dwelling surmounted by a tower for the front light.
Isle aux Peches Range Lights were again carried away by ice in the spring of 1901 and 1902, but were re-established in April of the corresponding year. The Lighthouse Board repeated its request for funds for a more substantial range, and in 1902, it increased the projected cost to $18,000. The Board felt that the distance between the range lights should be decreased so they could both be seen in thick weather. This change would require the rear range light to be in deeper water, which, along with the increase in labor and material since the initial request, raised the projected cost of the range lights.
Peche Island Front Range Lighthouse in 1935
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
The range lights were again carried away by ice in the spring of 1903, and then re-established in April, only to have the front range carried away by an unknown vessel in June. The range lights were carried away by ice during the next three winters, but they were faithfully rebuilt the following spring and put back in service.
Congress finally appropriated $18,000 on June 30, 1906 for a more robust set of range lights at Isle aux Peches. Later that year, a survey was made to select the sites for the lights and plans for the structures were drawn up. Of course, while plans were being made for the new lights, the existing range was carried away by ice during the winter, but it was back in service on April 26, 1907.
Cribs for the lights were built at the Detroit lighthouse depot and then towed out in early May 1907 to the selected sites, where they were secured to piles and filled and riprapped with 342 cords of stone. Work on the superstructure was put off until 1908 so the cribs would have time to settle in place.
The permanent lights were placed in operation on June 15, 1908, and the following description of them was given by the Lake Carriers’ Association: “The front light, which is 38 feet above the water level, is a fourth order light flashing white every ten seconds, and the rear light, which is 57 1/2 feet above the water, is a fixed red reflector light. These structures are conical steel towers, built upon concrete piers, constructed to withstand the action of the ice which each spring heretofore has carried away the temporary pile clusters from which these range lights have been exhibited.”
At the opening of navigation in 1909, the intensity of the front light was increased almost tenfold by changing its illuminant from oil to incandescent oil vapor. At the same time, the rear light was improved by changing it from oil to compressed acetylene in acetone. In 1914, the front light was converted to an acetylene light that was on for one second then off for one second. This change allowed the lights to be automated, and the station’s two keepers were assigned elsewhere.
By 1926, the cribs support the lights had greatly deteriorated and were in a dangerous condition. The Lighthouse Service removed the crib superstructures to the waterline in 1926 and rebuilt them in reinforced concrete. A ten-foot-tall lower story, also built of reinforced concrete, was built under the rear range as mariners had complained that the difference in height between the two lights was so small that they nearly merged along the range line.
On the night of November 5, 1927, a tugboat captain reported that the front range light was ablaze, after having seen two men leave its crib in a rowboat. The fireboat James R. Elliott rushed to the scene, and just as it was tying up to the crib, flames reached the acetylene magazine, which exploded with terrific force. The explosion shattered nearly every window in the fireboat and hurled fireman Harold Koehn into the lake. Hundreds of residents were attracted to the shoreline on both sides of the Detroit River by the explosion and fire. The front tower was blown apart and toppled by the explosion, but a temporary replacement light was established on the crib the next day.
Peche Island Rear Range Lighthouse in 1935
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
The following account of the explosion and the lesson learned from it appeared in the Lighthouse Service Bulletin:
The tower consisted of an inclosed conical structural steel plate tower supporting a standard eight-sided lantern, exhibiting an unwatched occulting acetylene light in a fourth-order fixed lens. The focal plane of the lantern was about 30 feet above the base of the tower, which was secured to a reinforced concrete block, supported by a timber stone-filled crib. There were four acetylene tanks in the base of the tower, and the parapet plates of the lantern were provided with the usual ventilators. The tower door was shut and locked, and the structure was secured to the block by foundation bolts.
The fire apparently started on the easterly side of the crib, outside of the concrete block. Two boys, the city fire tug, and the lighthouse tender Thistle responded to the alarm. The fire gained headway, and a crackling noise, followed by a sound of escaping gas was heard inside the tower. The fire tug had just started to put water on the fire when an explosion took place which lifted the tower about 20 or 30 feet in the air and blew it open, the wreck falling in a northeasterly direction partly on the concrete pier and partly on the burning cribwork.
An examination of the station shows that the concrete pier is slightly damaged, with some cracking and spalling; the steel tower, lantern deck, lantern, and lens are a total loss; the four gas tanks show no sign of undue stress, as all the fusible plugs had melted, relieving the gas within; the 1 1/2-inch foundation bolts were all sheared off, and many of the tower joints had been pulled apart, especially at window and door openings. Parts of the lantern, lantern deck, etc., were found scattered over the entire area of the pier.
It seems probable that at least one of the tanks became hot enough to melt a fusible plug, filling the tower with gas, which probably exploded upon reaching the pilot flame at the top of the tower, or the gas may have been ignited by the flames through a small crevice under the base angle of the tower.
The chief lesson to be drawn from this explosion is the need of thoroughly adequate ventilation near the base of similarly arranged structures, and also at a point beneath the compartment in which the light apparatus is located. In any inclosed tower it seems essential that the tank compartment and the space in which the light is located be closed off or isolated from each other and separately ventilated.
A square, pyramidal tower took the place of the destroyed conical tower atop the front range crib.
The range lights were electrified in 1940. By 1980, the rear light had developed a severe list, and in 1983, it was replaced by a modern structure. Michigan Bank – Port Huron acquired the lighthouse from Luedtke Engineering Company, which was contracted to scrap the lighthouse, and then restored the structure and placed it on the riverfront in Marine City. The lighthouse was dedicated at its new home on August 21, 1983.
In 2013, Marine City mayor John Gabor announced that the city had failed to receive a matching grant from the highly competitive Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program, which is funded by the sale of Save Our Lights specialty license plates. A representative of the State Historic Preservation Office explained that it would be difficult for Peche Island Lighthouse to receive grant money as it had been moved from its historic site and because it was built by Canadians. While the first reason may be valid, the 1908 tower is definitely an American lighthouse. Marine City plans to use the money it had reserved as matching funds to proceed with a partial restoration of the tower.
During the fall of 2014, IPC Services placed a penetrating primer on the tower followed by an intermediate coat of paint and then a polyurethane coat to provide UV protection. The latest paint job is expected to last thirty or thirty-five years. In addition to the new paint, the tower also received new windows and upgraded lighting. The total cost for the renovations came to about $35,000, most of which came from a recreation millage fund.
Skeleton towers that display fixed white lights serve Peche Island Range today.
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Crisp Point Light House
Open to the public on a regularly schedule basis
Located about 14 miles (23 km) west of Whitefish Point, in 1876 it became Life Saving Station Number Ten, of the U.S. Life-Saving Service District 10 (later part of District 11). Crisp Point is named from one of the Life Saving Station keepers, Christopher Crisp, who is said to have been "an iron-willed boatman." Surfmen were stationed there to aid mariners and ships in distress. The station, along with the rest of the United States Life-Saving Service, was integrated into the United States Coast Guard in 1915. (In 1939 the U.S. Lighthouse Service also merged under the control of the Coast Guard). Due to the fact that the US Life-Saving Service and the US Lighthouse Service were originally two distinct entities, the Crisp Point Life Saving Station and the Crisp Point Lighthouse were also originally two separate entities.
The other four Life-Saving Stations were Vermilion Point (now Vermilion, Michigan), about five miles (8 km) east of Crisp Point, Two Hearted River, 5 or 6 miles (8.0 or 9.7 km) west of Crisp Point, Deer Park, Michigan (formerly known as the Sucker River Station and Muskallonge Lake Station), about 10 or 11 miles (16 or 18 km) west of Two Hearted River, and Grand Marais about 15 or 16 miles (24 or 26 km) west of Deer Park.[1]
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Categories of Personal Data Collected and Processed by Tourstart
Personal data that is processed when you create a Tourstart account:
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You can sign up or log in into your Tourstart account using your social media credentials. The first time you choose to use your social media credentials for these purposes you will be asked to grant Tourstart permission to use your social media data such as your name, email address, profile photo or other information associated with your social media account. Tourstart retains and processes only your email address. In case you do not want to share your information with Tourstart by the social media provider then you should log in or sign up in a traditional way.
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When you sync your device through Tourstart Transfer, Tourstart collects such data as
crash/diagnostic logs, information about GPS - name, device id, vendor id, information about installed os - name (OSX/Windows) and version, list of attached usb flash drivers during last sync, sync date and time. Tourstart does not collect any information about network and geo position. The data collection starts right after the user clicks the “Transfer” button, at this time old data is replaced with new data.
We process this information to help identify and resolve errors or syncing issues.
Personal data that is processed when you use Tourstart Application
While using a Tourstart Application and provide your consent, Toutstart will collect from your device such data as location, speed, direction, time and date of recording. The reason Tourstart uses this information is to enhance the quality of our Application and provide you with location-based services.
Tourstart and the partners app uses your location to notify you in time on the road by voice turn-by-turn instructions of the navigation and recording of tracks, even if the application is in the background or not in use.
User profile information and status of active subscription is uploaded to Tourstart server. It is not share with 3rd party
Personal data that is processed when you purchase a product on Tourstart Website or Application
Tourstart does not collect, retain or process your payment card information. The user payment card details are processed by 3rd parties:
NordPay - for purchases on Tourstart Website. More information in NordPay Privacy Notice
Apple Store In-App Payments - for purchases in iOS apps. Apple Privacy Policy
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The legal basis for processing data is the following:
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processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.
Personal Sensitive Information
Tourstart does not intentionally collect, therefore you as a Website visitor or an Application user should not provide any information about your race and ethnic origin, medical or health condition, political opinions, religious and philosophical beliefs, bank account information, TAX and passport numbers, driver's license or other similar personal identifiers.
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If you are located outside Denmark and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Denmark and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Tourstart ApS will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
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This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Application through a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
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The analytical data that is collected by using Tourstart Application include the date and time the Application accesses our servers, App version, the location of the device, language setting, what information and files have been downloaded to the app, user behavior (e.g., features used, frequency of use), device state information, device model, hardware and operating system information, and information relating to how the app functions. This helps us to improve the quality and functionality, enhance the usability of the Application.
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Security of Data
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Children's Privacy
Our Services does not address anyone under the age of 13-16 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13-16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
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You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Retention of Personal Data
Your personal data will be retained as long as your Tourstart account is considered to be active. In addition, see below under “Your Rights” for a description of your right of erasure.
User Rights
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the right to restrict or block your data processing
the right to make your data portable
the right to object to having your data processed
the right to be protected from automated decision
The right to be informed means you know who we are and how to contact us, why we are processing your personal data and what types of personal data we're processing, lawful basis for data processing, data storage expiration, sharing with 3rd parties and user rights.
The right to rectify gives you a possibility to rectify any inaccurate or incomplete information in your Tourstart account that provides you with tools and account settings to access, edit, delete or modify the personal data you provided to us. If you want to find out more contact us using the contact details.
The right to erasure gives you the right to delete your account. You can delete your account clicking on Delete Your Data button in the account data management section. We keep Log Data for a maximum of 18 months. If you choose to delete your account, first it will be deactivated and then deleted. When deactivated, your Tourstart account will no longer be viewable on Tourstart.org, iOS and Android Tourstart Applications. For up to 30 days after deactivation it is possible to restore your Tourstart account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated. Though you have deleted your account search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your profile information.
Restricting your data from processing means we can no longer process it but store.
The right to data portability grants you the right to get the copy of data provided by you and give it to another organization if there is a need to. You can request your data file by contact Tourstart.
Object to data processing you can in your account settings and by following the unsubscribe link in Tourstart mails.
The right to be protected from automated decision. We use your personal data for automated decision-making when we automatically disable PRO subscription after your purchase has expired.
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Tourstart Services may contain links to third party Websites that are maintained by others. Any such links are provided solely as a convenience to You and not as an endorsement by Tourstart of the contents on such third-party Websites. Tourstart is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations or warranties regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party Websites or the privacy practices of such third parties. If you decide to access linked third-party Websites, you do so at your own risk.
Termination, Breach, Suspension and Cancellation
If Your Subscription Fee payment is overdue, Tourstart will disable Your access to the features provided by Tourstart Pro. Tourstart may, at its sole discretion, at any time and for any reason, terminate the Services, terminate this Agreement, or suspend or terminate Your Account. In the event of suspension or termination, Your account will be disabled and You may not be granted access to Your Account or any files or other Content (including Your User Content) contained in Your Account, and Tourstart may delete Your User Content, although residual copies of information may remain in our system for some time for back-up purposes. In the event of termination, Tourstart may also withdraw and at its discretion reallocate the public web address of Your Account. If You terminate Your Account, via means provided for cancellation on the Tourstart website or electronic mail to Tourstart, and You request that Tourstart delete Your User Content and files contained in Your Account, Tourstart will make all reasonable efforts to do so.
Refund
Tourstart Pro/Premium cancellation in Applications is provided by App Store and Google Play Market services. To get more information about App Store Refund Policy and how to request a refund, follow the link https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084. On how to get a refund on Google Play you can read here https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2479637?hl=en
Tourstart Pro cancellation for Web purchases are not possible after the purchase.
Intellectual Property Rights
Tourstart and/or its suppliers, as applicable, retain ownership of all proprietary rights in the Services and in all trade names, trademarks and service marks associated or displayed with the Services. You will not remove, deface or obscure any of Tourstart’s or its suppliers' copyright or trademark notices and/or legends or other proprietary notices on, incorporated therein, or associated with the Services. You may not reverse engineer, reverse compile or otherwise reduce to human readable form any software associated with the Services.
Export Restrictions
You acknowledge that the Services, or portion thereof may be subject to the export control laws of Denmark. You will not export, re-export, divert, transfer or disclose any portion of the Services or any related technical information or materials, directly or indirectly, in violation of any applicable export law or regulation.
Injunctive Relief
You acknowledge that any use of the Services contrary to this Agreement, or any transfer, sublicensing, copying or disclosure of technical information or materials related to the Services, may cause irreparable injury to Tourstart, its affiliates, suppliers and any other party authorized by Tourstart to resell, distribute, or promote the Services ("Resellers"), and under such circumstances Tourstart, its affiliates, suppliers and Resellers will be entitled to equitable relief, without posting bond or other security, including, but not limited to, preliminary and permanent injunctive relief.
Proper Use
Tourstart does not claim ownership over any User Content submitted on or through the Services. Your User Content belongs to You. However, by uploading any User Content to the Services, You agree that Tourstart may store and display (only to You, to the extent that You make such User Content private) Your User Content solely as necessary in connection with the Services. To the extent You choose to share any of Your User Content with other users of the Services, You agree to allow these users (i.e., only the users you specify) to view Your User Content and, to the extent applicable, collaborate with You and Your User Content.
You understand that all User Content is the sole responsibility of the person from which such User Content originated. This means that You, and not Tourstart, are entirely responsible for all User Content that You upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available via Your Account. Tourstart does not control the User Content posted via the Services and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such User Content.
You understand that by using the Services, You may be exposed to User Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will Tourstart be liable in any way for any User Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Services. You acknowledge that Tourstart does not pre-screen User Content, but that Tourstart and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse, modify or move any Content that is available via the Services. Without limiting the foregoing, Tourstart and its designees shall have the right to remove any User Content that violates the Agreement or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that You must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, You acknowledge that You may not reasonably rely on any Content created by Tourstart or submitted to Tourstart. You acknowledge and agree that Tourstart may preserve User Content and may also disclose User Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
· comply with legal process;
· enforce the Agreement;
· respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or
· protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Tourstart, its users and the public.
If Tourstart discloses User Content to comply with legal process or respond to claims that any User Content violates the rights of third-parties, to the extent permitted by law, regulation or legal process, Tourstart agrees to provide You with prompt notice of any such legal or governmental demand and reasonably cooperate with You in any effort to seek a protective order or otherwise to contest such required disclosure.
You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Services, including Your User Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
Should User Content be found or reported to be in violation with, but not limited to, the following terms, it will be in Tourstart’s sole discretion as to what action should be taken. You agree that You will not:
· use this website to create an electronic database or otherwise that includes material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the website;
· upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other contact information without the written consent of the owner of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
· harm minors in any way;
· impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Tourstart official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent Your affiliation with a person or entity;
· forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted through the Services;
· upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content that You do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
· upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary rights of any party;
· upload, post, or transmit unsolicited commercial email or "spam". This includes unethical marketing, advertising, or any other practice that is in any way connected with "spam", including but not limited to (a) sending mass email to recipients who haven't requested email from You or with a fake return address, (b) promoting a site with inappropriate links, titles, descriptions, or (c) promoting Your site by posting multiple submissions in public forums that are identical;
· upload, post or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
· interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services;
· intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the EU and the U.S.
· "stalk" or otherwise harass another;
· promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, without limitation, providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons or incendiary devices.
· offer for sale or sell any item, good or service that (i) violates any applicable law or regulation, (ii) You do not have full power and authority under all relevant laws and regulations to offer and sell, including all necessary licenses and authorizations, or (iii) Tourstart determines, in its sole discretion, is inappropriate for sale through the Services provided by Tourstart;
· exceed the scope of the Services that You have signed up for; for example, accessing and using the tools that You do not have a right to use, or having humans share User logins, or deleting, adding to, or otherwise changing other people's comments or User Content as an Account holder. If any user is reported to be in violation with the letter or spirit of these terms, Tourstart retains the right to terminate such account at any time without further warning.
Apple and Android Devices and Application Terms
If you are accessing the Services via an application on a device provided by Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) or Google Inc. or an application obtained through the Apple App Store or Google Play Market (each an “Application”), the following shall apply:
· Both You and Tourstart acknowledge that these Terms and Conditions are concluded between you and Tourstart only, and not with Apple or Google, and that Apple or Google is not responsible for the Application or the Content;
· The Application is licensed to You on a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable basis, solely to be used in connection with the Services for Your private, personal, non-commercial use, subject to all the terms and conditions of these Terms and Conditions as they are applicable to the Services;
· You will only use the Application in connection with an Apple or Android device that You own or control;
· You acknowledge and agree that Apple or Google has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support Services with respect to the Application;
· In the event of any failure of the Application to conform to any applicable warranty, including those implied by law, You may notify Apple or Google of such failure; upon notification, Apple’s or Google’s sole warranty obligation to You will be to refund to you the purchase price, if any, of the Application;
· You acknowledge and agree that Tourstart, and not Apple or Google, is responsible for addressing any claims You or any third party may have in relation to the Application;
· You acknowledge and agree that, in the event of any third party claim that the Application or Your possession and use of the Application infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, Tourstart, and not Apple or Google, will be responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such infringement claim;
· Both You and Tourstart acknowledge and agree that, in Your use of the Application, You will comply with any applicable third party terms of agreement which may affect or be affected by such use; and
· Both You and Tourstart acknowledge and agree that Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries, Google and Google subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these Terms and Conditions, and that upon Your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, Apple or Google will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms and Conditions against You as the third party beneficiary hereof.
· Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Google Play is a trademark of Google Inc.
General Practices Regarding Use and Storage
You agree that Tourstart has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any User Content and other communications maintained by the Services. You acknowledge that Tourstart may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services and may modify such practices and limits from time to time. Tourstart retains the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice. You acknowledge that we reserve the right to log off users who are inactive for an extended period of time.
You agree that You will not:
· upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any computer routines, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
· interfere with or disrupt our Services or networks connected to our website or through the use of our Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to our website or through the use of our Services, or otherwise interfere with our Services in any way, including through the use of JavaScript, ActiveX or other coding;
· take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; or
· copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or publicly display any information displayed on the Services (except for Your User Content), or create derivative works from our website (other than from Your User Content), to the extent that such action(s) would constitute copyright infringement or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of Tourstart, except with the prior written consent of Tourstart.
Content of The Services
Tourstart takes no responsibility for any third-party Content or User Content (including, without limitation, any viruses or other disabling features), nor does Tourstart have any obligation to monitor such third-party Content. Tourstart reserves the right at all times to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, such as Content which violates these Terms and Conditions. Tourstart also reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as it reasonably believes is necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (b) enforce these Terms and Conditions, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (d) respond to user support requests, or (e) protect the rights, property or safety of Tourstart, its users and the public. Tourstart will not be responsible or liable for the exercise or non-exercise of its rights under this Agreement.
If Tourstart discloses such information to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request or to respond to user support requests, to the extent permitted by law, regulation or legal process, Tourstart agrees to provide You with prompt notice of any such demand and reasonably cooperate with You in any effort to seek a protective order or otherwise to contest such required disclosure.
Cookies
We employ the use of cookies. By using Tourstart's website you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with Tourstart’s Privacy Policy. Most of the modern interactive web sites use cookies to enable to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting. Some of our affiliate / advertising partners may also use cookies.
International Use
Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, You agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable User Content. Specifically, You agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from Denmark or the country in which You reside.
No Resale of The Service
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Services, use of the Services, or access to the Services without the express permission by Tourstart.
Your Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant that (a) all of the information provided by You to Tourstart to participate in the Services is correct and current; and (b) You have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into these Terms and Conditions and to perform the acts required of You hereunder.
No Warranties or Representations by Tourstart ApS
You understand and agree that the Services are provided "as is" and Tourstart, its affiliates, suppliers and Resellers expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or bailment of your data on Tourstart servers. Tourstart, its affiliates, suppliers and Resellers make no warranty or representation regarding the results that may be obtained from the use of the Services, the security of the Services, or that the Services will meet any user's requirements. Use of the Services is at Your sole risk. You will be solely responsible for any damage to You resulting from the use of the Services. The entire risk arising out of use, security or performance of the Services remains with You. No oral or written information or advice given by Tourstart or its authorized representatives shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of Tourstart’s obligations. Without limiting the foregoing, the Services are not designed or licensed for use in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe controls, including without limitation operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation/communication systems, air traffic control, and life support or weapons systems. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Tourstart, its affiliates, suppliers and Resellers specifically disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for such purposes.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Tourstart, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, suppliers and Resellers from any and all third party claims, liability, damages and/or costs (including, but not limited to, attorneys fees as and when incurred) arising from Your use of the Services, Your use of Your Account, Your violation of these Terms and Conditions or the infringement or violation by You or any other User of Your Account, of any intellectual property relating to the Services (including without limitation Your User Content) or other right of any person or entity.
Modifications to Services
Tourstart reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice at any time. You agree that Tourstart shall not be liable to You or to any third party for any modification, suspension, termination or discontinuance of the Services.
No Agency
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship between You and Tourstart Software is intended or created by these Terms and Conditions.
Limitation of Liability
In no event will Tourstart or its affiliates, suppliers or Resellers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, exemplary or consequential damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or any other pecuniary loss or damage) arising out of the use of or inability to use the Services, or the provision of or failure to provide technical or other support service, whether arising in tort (including negligence) contract or any other legal theory, even if Tourstart, its affiliates, suppliers or Resellers have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In any case, Tourstart’s, its affiliates', suppliers' and Resellers' maximum cumulative liability and Your exclusive remedy for any claims arising out of or related to this Agreement will be limited to the amount actually paid by You for the Services (if any) in the previous twelve (12) months.
Waiver and Severability
Failure by either party to exercise any of its rights under, or to enforce any provision of, this Agreement will not be deemed a waiver or forfeiture of such rights or ability to enforce such provision. If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be amended to achieve as nearly as possible the same economic effect of the original provision and the remainder of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect.
Statute of Limitations
You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising of or related to use of Tourstart Services or the Terms and Conditions must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
Choice of Law and Forum
This Agreement and any other legal issues on Tourstart and the conditions shall be governed by the laws of Denmark. The courts of Denmark shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any and all disputes, claims and actions arising from or in connection with the Data provided to you hereunder. You agree to submit to such jurisdiction.
Prevailing version
The English text prevails.
Copyright Policy
The copyright and all other rights in the material on this web site are owned by us or are included with the permission of the owner of the rights. As a visitor to this website, you may download a single copy of the material on this website on a single computer or PDA for your own private viewing purpose only. Single copies of pages from this website may be printed out for the sole purposes of enabling the person printing the page to retain a copy for their own personal records. No copying of distribution of material on the website for commercial or business use is permitted without our prior written consent. No photography, filming, broadcast, alteration or modification of the pages of this website is permitted without our prior written consent except as may be reasonably necessary to use the website. Subject to this paragraph, all rights in material on this website are reserved to Tourstart.
Entire Agreement/General Provisions
This Agreement embodies the entire understanding and agreement between the parties respecting the subject matter of this Agreement and supersedes any and all prior understandings and agreements between the parties respecting such subject matter. Tourstart may change the terms of this Agreement at any time by posting modified terms on its website. This Agreement has been prepared in the English Language and such version shall be controlling in all respects and any non-English version of this Agreement is solely for accommodation purposes. Any and all rights and remedies of Tourstart upon Your breach or other default under this Agreement will be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any other right or remedy conferred by this Agreement or by law or equity on Tourstart, and the exercise of any one remedy will not preclude the exercise of any other. The captions and headings appearing in this Agreement are for reference only and will not be considered in construing this Agreement. Notices to You may be made via either email or regular mail. The Services may also provide notices of changes to the Agreement or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to You generally on the Services.
All notices or other correspondence to Tourstart under this Agreement must be sent to the following electronic mail address for such purpose: info@tourstart.org
Tourstart does not track its customers and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. However, some third-party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer allow you to set the DNT signal on your browser so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked. To enable or disable “Do Not Track” function on your browser, follow the links below:
Safari https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21416
Google Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17288/windows-internet-explorer-11-use-do-not-track
Third parties that have content embedded on Tourstart website such as a social feature or a stock ticker may set cookies on a user’s browser and/or obtain information about the fact that a web browser visited Tourstart website from a certain IP address. Third parties cannot collect any other personally identifiable information from Tourstart website unless you provide it to them directly.
Notice for Minors
Tourstart offers interactive services which allow you to post content to share publicly or with friends or remain private. At any time you can delete or remove content you have posted using the deletion or removal options within our services. If you have questions about how to remove content in a specific service or if you would like additional assistance with deletion you can contact us. Although we offer deletion capability for our Services, you should be aware that the removal of content may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of that content or information posted through the Services.
Tourstart ApS is a Danish company and is responsible for the websites Tourstart and Touringstart and Tourstart and partners application (the “Application”) and is committed to protect your privacy and security. The Application is licensed to you, not sold. The Application is provided under the following license and is subject to the following terms and conditions.
All details you may supply to Tourstart with your on-line activities is protected to the extent that we will follow appropriate security procedures in the storage of the personal information, as to prevent unauthorised access by third parties. The information will be safeguarded by current law as well.
IMPORTANT: CAREFULLY READ THIS LICENSE BEFORE USING THE APPLICATION. USING THE APPLICATION INDICATES YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS LICENSE AND AGREE TO ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, THEN YOU MUST NOT USE THE APPLICATION.
User profile information and status of active subscription is uploaded to Tourstart server. It is not share with 3rd party.
This app uses the location in the background to notify users in time on the road by voice turn-by-turn instructions of the navigation, even if the application is in the background or not in use.
Legal issues
All terms mentioned on "Legal Issues" are valid for the use of Tourstart, such as, but not limited to:
If you subscribed through either App Store or Google Play, you will need to go through them to update your subscription. Instructions how to update your subscription are shown below.
Should you want to cancel your recurrent subscription you will remain Pro user until the expiry of the current subscription. After the last day of being a Pro user you will return to the basic subscription which are free of charge.
Instructions how to cancel the subscription can be found on this link
Tourstart Pro/Premium offers access to the Navigation system on a recurring basis enabling you to navigate using the offline voice guided turn-by-turn navigation system. The price is mentioned during the purchase process.
Payment will be charged via your personal App Store/Google Play account and charged at confirmation of the purchase
If you signed up for a free trial subscription and you don't want to renew it, cancel it at least 24 hours before the trial ends.
If you cancel, you can keep using the subscription until the next billing date.
Cookies are small files which are received from a web server and are either stored on your web browser until its expiry date, or until the end of each session. You may not agree to accept cookies and refuse them.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
First Party Cookies
Account related cookies
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
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Tourstart offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
Orders processing related cookies
Tourstart offers some payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
Forms related cookies
When you submit data through a form such as Feedback or comment form on a Tour page, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Preference cookies
During the visit, these cookies are used to store information about the type of browser used and which additional browser software is installed. They also store the preferences selected when personalizing the website, for example, preferred location, language or fonts. These preferences are remembered, through the use of the persistent cookies, and the next time the user visits the site he will not have to set them again.
Session Cookies
Session cookies enable the website owners to keep track of the movement of users visiting the website from page to page so they do not get asked for the same information they have already given to the site. Session cookies are deleted when you close the browser.
Security Cookies
Used for security purposes.
Essential cookies
Are necessary to provide you with our Site and Application core services and functionality, such as enable Application sign-in.
Analytics cookies
Help to learn more about how you interact with our content to improve our services. They collect information about how visitors use our site, which site the user came from, the number of each user’s visits and how long a user stays on the site. This information does not record the individual user’s specific details and it is used to create web statistics usage at aggregated level. We use Google Analytics, see Third Party cookies for more information.
Performance cookies
Collect information about your use of the website, such as webpages visited and any error messages; they do not collect personally identifiable information, and the information collected is aggregated such that it is anonymous. Performance cookies are used to improve how a website works.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.
Tourstart uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies also track the number of purchases made on our Website.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
DoubleClick cookies are used to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns. This service gathers information regarding visits made by users on our website. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts by tracking your interests.
Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
We embed videos or insert links to videos from YouTube on our website. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from or linked to YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from this website.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. The social media sites including Facebook sets cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Disabling Cookies
You can disable cookies in the settings of your browser. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the Tourstart functionality and other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies usually results in disabling certain functionality and website features. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
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This End User License Agreement (further the “Agreement”) is between Tourstart ApS (further “Tourstart”) and a user (“You”) and governs the use of Tourstart Transfer - the software product owned by Tourstart (further the “Software”) and protected under copyright laws and international copyright treaties. The following agreement defines what you may do with the product and contains limitations on warranties and/or remedies and other terms.
By clicking the “I Accept” box, You accept and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions of the given Agreement. If you do not agree to all of the terms of this EULA, you may not download, install, use or copy the Software.
Licensing of use
Tourstart grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the Software on a Personal Computer owned and controlled by You, and to access and use the Software on such Personal Computer strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The copyright and all other rights to the Software shall remain with us.
This software is licensed, not sold by Tourstart and Tourstart reserves any rights not expressly granted to you.
This Agreement entitles you to install and use one copy of the Software on a single computer or network for personal use of the Software. This copy is to be used by only a single user at a time. If you wish to use the Software for more users, you will need an additional license for each user.
Restrictions of use
You shall use the Software strictly in accordance with the terms of the Agreement and shall not:
use, copy, modify, alter, create derivative works of the Software or transfer the Software or accompanying documentation, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement;
translate, disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer the Software;
sublicense, lease, rent, assign, distribute, repackage, rebrand, or otherwise transfer or disclose the Software, any portion thereof or any accompanying documentation to any third party; or
cause, assist or permit any third party (including an end-user) to do any of the foregoing.
use the Software in a multi-user or networked environment or on a rental basis or in a time-sharing or computer service business.
upload, post, email or transmit or otherwise make available content that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary right of any party, unless You are the owner of the rights or have the permission of the owner to post such Content;
use the Software or other content for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;
remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Software or any other Tourstart content, including but not limited to maps and/or driving directions; or
transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, or any items of a destructive nature.
Termination of use
This Agreement shall continue for as long as you use the Software. In case you fail to comply with any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, it will terminate automatically without notice from Tourstart. Although Tourstart, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to discontinue Your access to the Software at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. You must agree, upon termination, to destroy all copies of the Software. The Limitation of Liability and Disclaimers of Warranties set out below shall continue in force even after any termination. Upon the termination of the Agreement for any reason all license rights granted herein shall terminate; and You shall immediately cease all use of the Software.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
TOURSTART AND ITS LICENSORS (INCLUDING THEIR LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU: IN RESPECT OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND OR ACTION, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF THE CLAIM, DEMAND OR ACTION ALLEGING ANY LOSS, INJURY OR DAMAGES, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OR POSSESSION OF THE INFORMATION; OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, REVENUE, CONTRACTS OR SAVINGS, OR ANY OTHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS INFORMATION, ANY DEFECT IN THE INFORMATION, OR THE BREACH OF THESE TERMS OR CONDITIONS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR BASED ON A WARRANTY, EVEN IF TOURSTART OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Some states, territories and countries do not allow certain liability exclusions or damages limitations, so to that extent the above may not apply to you. You are therefore prohibited to use the software in those regions and areas.
Disclaimer of warrantey
This Data is provided to you "as is," and you agree to use it at your own risk. Tourstart and its licensors (and their licensors and suppliers) make no guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, arising by law or otherwise, including but not limited to, content, quality, accuracy, completeness, effectiveness, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, usefulness, use or results to be obtained from this Data, or that the Data or server will be uninterrupted or error-free.
You assume all responsibility and risk for the use of the Software and Tourstart disclaims all liability for any loss, injury or damage resulting from use of this product, whether direct or indirect, and whether or not Tourstart has been advised of or has knowledge of the possibility of such loss, injury or damage.
Copyright infringement
Any and all trademarks or service marks that Tourstart uses in connection with the Software or with services rendered by Tourstart are marks owned by Tourstart. This Agreement does not grant you any right, license, or interest in such marks, and you shall not assert any right, license, or interest in such marks or any words or designs that are confusingly similar to such marks. You acknowledge that the Software and the Documentation are proprietary to Tourstart, and the Software and Documentation are protected under Danish copyright and other intellectual property laws and international treaties. Tourstart and its third-party licensors own and shall continue to own all right, title, and interest in and to the Software and Documentation, including associated intellectual property rights under copyright, trade secret, patent, or trademark laws. Except for the limited, revocable license expressly granted to you herein, this Agreement does not grant you any ownership or other right or interest in or to the Software or the Documentation or any other intellectual property rights of Tourstart, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. Any and all trademarks or service marks that Tourstart uses in connection with the Software or with services rendered by Tourstart are marks owned by Tourstart.
General
This License is the entire agreement between us, superseding any other agreement or discussions, oral or written, and may not be changed except by a signed agreement. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Denmark. If any provision of this License is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, such a provision shall be severed from the Agreement and the other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
Tourstart grants you a limited, non-exclusive license to use the Application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Tourstart reserves the right to modify the Application, or to discontinue offering the Application all together at any time and for any reason, including without limitation, if any third party supplier ceases to supply content or services, or if Tourstart’s contract with such supplier terminates. In the event Tourstart shall discontinue offering the Application, this Agreement and your rights under it shall terminate immediately. The Disclaimers of Warranty and Liability contained in this Agreement shall survive such termination.
By agreeing to the EULA, you also acknowledge that
· the EULA is concluded between Tourstart and you
· Tourstart is responsible for the Application
· Tourstart is not responsible for any third party content;
· You as End-User must comply with applicable third party terms of agreement when using Your Application and not not be in violation with a Third Party agreement when using the Application.
· for some features of the Application, you will need to have wireless Internet and data connection enabled on your mobile device (using wireless Internet may result in significant data charges from your mobile service provider for which Tourstart is not responsible);
· Tourstart may use different third party map data suppliers; (to check which Map Data EULA applies to your Product, please refer to the "About Screen" of your Software);
· your use of this real time route guidance application is at your sole risk;
· location data may not be accurate.
You may not use the Application and may not accept the EULA if:
· You are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Tourstart, or
· You are a person barred from receiving the Application under the laws of the United States or other countries including the country in which you reside or from which you access the Application.
When possible Tourstart has provided for your information a translation of the EULA. You agree that the translations are provided for your convenience only and that the English Language shall prevail and always be binding in case of conflict. Tourstart's terms and conditions on Tourstart’s website and any of Tourstart's associated pages are hereby incorporated by reference to the EULA and therefore form a binding agreement. Tourstart regularly update the EULA and the website and encourage you to visit those pages.
Acceptance
The download or use of the enclosed Application on your device constitutes your acceptance of these terms. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, you must immediately delete the Application from your device and destroy any copies you made of the Application and of any written materials relating to the Application, and promptly return the Application and, if bought as part of a package, any associated devices.
License
Tourstart grants you, as an individual, a non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to install and use one copy of the Application on a single device at a time. Your licence to use the Application is subject to you complying with the terms of this Licence. A licence is required for each installation of the Application.
Transfer
You are not allowed to move your Application from one device to another.
Change conditions
Tourstart is entitled to change or add to the EULA and Legal Issues at any time, and is not entitled to give notice about any changes. The latest EULA and Legal Issues are to be found on Tourstart web site.
Copyright
International treaty provisions and copyright law protect the Application and the data transmitted by the Application. You agree that no title to the intellectual property in the Application or the data is transferred to you. You further acknowledge that title and ownership rights will remain the exclusive property of Tourstart or its licensors, and you will not acquire any rights to the Application or the data except as expressly set out in this licence. You agree that any copies of the Application will contain the same proprietary notices that appear on and in the Application.
The Copyright to the Application is held by the developer and owner Tourstart ApS, Løvet Møllevej 6, DK-8740 Brædstrup.
Prohibited Use
Unless you have Tourstart’s prior written permission, you may not
· use, copy, modify, alter, or transfer the Application or accompanying documentation, except as expressly permitted in this Licence;
· translate, disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer the Application;
· sublicense or lease the Applicationor its documentation; or
· use the Application in a multi-user or networked environment or on a rental basis or in a time-sharing or computer service business.
· sell, rent or lease the Application to any other person or third party. You acknowledge that the Application should be used only for general information purposes.
End-User Remedies
If the Application does not conform to the "Limited Warranty" above, Tourstart’s entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy will be, at Tourstart’s option, either to
· correct the error, or
· help you work around the error, or
· accept a return and issue a refund through your retailer.
The Limited Warranty is void if failure of the Application has resulted from your fault, abuse, or misapplication. If Tourstart correct an error in the Application for you, then the unexpired portion of the Limited Warranty period as at the date you informed us of the error will apply to the corrected Application once you have received the corrected version.
NO OTHER WARRANTIES
EXCEPT AS SET OUT IN THE LIMITED WARRANTY, TOURSTART DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE APPLICATION IS ERROR FREE.
TOURSTART DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OR THE DATA, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limits on how long an implied warranty may last, or an exclusion of incidental damages. This means the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other rights depending on your country.
No Liability for indirect loss
In no event will Tourstart be liable to you for any loss of profit, wasted time, lost business or for any incidental, or indirect loss of any kind arising out of the performance or use of the Application or the data, even if Tourstart has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Warning
The Application and the data are only a help for navigation. You must respect locally applicable traffic rules and regulations and use the Application with common sense. The reality observed on the road, and the traffic rules and regulations, always take precedence over the information provided by the Application or the data. You must always control your vehicle, and your speed. You must be able to react properly and execute every appropriate maneuver. You must adopt at all times a prudent and respectful behavior with respect to other vehicles and pedestrians. Tourstart shall not be held responsible for any information provided by the Application including, any map data, traffic data or any route calculation. Your use of this real time route guidance application is at your sole risk. Traffic and Location Data may not be accurate or timely.
Disclosure for optional content displayed in the Licensed Products for additional purchase: Navigation and any other functions are licensed as a subscription service which must be renewed annually for continued use.
Scope of License
The license granted to You for the Application is limited to a non-transferable license to use the Application on any iOS or Android Product that You own or control and as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the App Store and Play Market Terms of Service. Please refer to the App Store Terms of Service for more information.
Maintenance and Support
Tourstart is solely responsible for providing maintenance and support services with respect of the Application as required under applicable law. Apple or Google has no obligation to furnish any maintenance and supports services with respect to the Application.
Warranty
The above warranties apply. In the event of any failure of the Application to conform to the above applicable warranty, You may notify Apple or Google and Tourstart and Tourstart might refund You the purchase price for the Application.
Apple or Google will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Application and any other claims, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to the warranty shall be Tourstart’s sole responsibility.
Product Claims
You acknowledge that Tourstart, not Apple or Google, is responsible for addressing any of Your or any third party claims relating to the Application possession or use, including but not limited to
· product liability claim,
· any claim that the Application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and
· claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
Intellectual Property Rights
You acknowledge that in the event of any claim that the Application or your possession and use of the Application infringes any Third Party Intellectual Property Rights Tourstart and not Apple or Google shall be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of such Intellectual Property Infringement claim.
Third Party Beneficiary
Tourstart and You acknowledge and agree that Apple or Google, and their subsidiaries, are third party beneficiaries of the E.U.L.A. upon Your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this E.U.L.A. Apple or Google will have the right to enforce the E.U.L.A. against You as a third party beneficiary thereof.
Personal Use Only
"You" means you as an End-user or as a "Company" on behalf of its End-Users which are subject to either a Non Disclosure Agreement as Employees or a License Agreement that contains the same restrictions as herein as a Value Added Reseller. Also as used in this EULA, "personal use" can also be understood in more general terms as for a Company’s use. You agree to use this Data for the solely personal, noncommercial purposes for which you were licensed, and not for service bureau, time-sharing or other similar purposes.
You agree not to reproduce, copy, modify, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any portion of this Data, and may not transfer or distribute it in any form, for any purpose, except to the extent permitted by mandatory laws.
Restrictions
Except where you have been specifically licensed to do so by Tourstart, and without limiting the preceding paragraph, you may not
· use this Data with any products, systems, or applications installed or otherwise connected to or in communication with vehicles, capable of vehicle navigation, positioning, dispatch, real time route guidance, fleet management or similar applications; or
· with or in communication with any positioning devices or any mobile or wireless-connected electronic or computer devices.
Warning
The Data may contain inaccurate, untimely or incomplete information due to the passage of time, changing circumstances, sources used and the nature of collecting comprehensive geographic data, any of which may lead to incorrect results. The Data is based on official available maps. It is provided without a warranty of any kind. The user assumes full responsibility for any delay, expense, loss or damage that may occur as a result of use of the Data.
No Warranty
This Data is provided to you "as is," and you agree to use it at your own risk. Tourstart and its licensors (and their licensors and suppliers) make no guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, arising by law or otherwise, including but not limited to, content, quality, accuracy, completeness, effectiveness, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, usefulness, use or results to be obtained from this Data, or that the Data or server will be uninterrupted or error-free.
Disclaimer of Liability
TOURSTART AND ITS LICENSORS (INCLUDING THEIR LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU: IN RESPECT OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND OR ACTION, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF THE CLAIM, DEMAND OR ACTION ALLEGING ANY LOSS, INJURY OR DAMAGES, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OR POSSESSION OF THE INFORMATION; OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, REVENUE, CONTRACTS OR SAVINGS, OR ANY OTHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS INFORMATION, ANY DEFECT IN THE INFORMATION, OR THE BREACH OF THESE TERMS OR CONDITIONS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR BASED ON A WARRANTY, EVEN IF TOURSTART OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Some States, Territories and Countries do not allow certain liability exclusions or damages limitations, so to that extent the above may not apply to you. You are there for prohibited to use the Application in those regions and areas.
Export Control
You agree not to export from anywhere any part of the Data provided to you or any direct product thereof except in compliance with, and with all licenses and approvals required under, applicable export laws, rules and regulations.
Legal Compliance
You warrant that (i) You are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) You are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Termination
Without prejudice to its other rights, Tourstart may terminate this License if you fail to comply with these terms and conditions. In that situation, you must destroy all copies of the Application.
Governing Law
The above terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of Denmark. The courts of Denmark shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any and all disputes, claims and actions arising from or in connection with the Data provided to you hereunder. You agree to submit to such jurisdiction.
Prevailing version
The English text prevails.
Contact us
If you have any questions, complaints or claims with respect to the Licensed Application, please contact the Tourstart who is the developer and owner :
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