Photos of these 3 Great Lakes:
Lake Huron:
Lake Michigan:
Lake Superior:
Helping to protect the shipping traffic on the Great Lakes are and were lighthouses and fog horn stations. Some are still in use today. But modern navigation systems have made the light house and fog horn station system, for the most part obsolete. Despite the efforts of the lighthouses and fog horns ships still sank in the Great Lakes and add to the history of the Great Lakes.
Lighthouses:
Because of the heavy commerce that required the use of the Great Lakes for transporting goods and raw materials moorings and docks were and are needed. As technology advanced with newer ways of doing things the older type of docks and moorings were no longer needed. But they still stand as a testament to what was in the Great Lakes region. Here are photos of old moorings and docks from the past:
Ferry services have always been needed in the Great Lakes to travel form one land mass to another. A great example is from the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the Upper Peninsula. Until the Mackinaw Bridge was completed in 1957 the only way to travel from one side of the straits to the other was by a ferry boat. Today because of modern shipping and the bridge certain types of ferry services are no longer needed. The main ferry services today are for human transportation across the Straits of Mackinaw. The bridge is used to transport motor vehicles and newer modern shipping methods are used to deliver goods to ports. Photos of both older style ferry services and ferry services used today:
The Straits of Mackinac has a lot of important historical significance. That history continues to this day. Here are some more photos about that history:
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