>> Click to enlarge << Mission Point Lighthouse in 2020. Photo by: Ginger Schultz

As well as getting some new historically accurate shutters for its 150th Anniversary last September, as shown in these photos, the kitchen at Michigan’s 1870 Mission Point Lighthouse also had some updates.

>> Click to enlarge << Sarah E. Lane is shown here is this undated photo ...

Owned by Peninsula Township in Traverse City, Michigan, the lighthouse is located near the 45th Parallel, halfway between the equator and the North Pole.

>> Click to enlarge << The newly renovated kitchen at Mission Point ...

>> Click to enlarge << The newly renovated kitchen at Mission Point ...

>> Click to enlarge << Born on September 10, 1827, John W. Lane was 30 ...

>> Click to enlarge << The headstone of lighthouse keeper John W. Lane ...

>> Click to enlarge << Sarah E. Lane was the only female keeper of the ...

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