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Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Beacon Lighting

Split Rock Lighthouse hosts the Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Beacon Lighting on Friday, November 10.  The site is open from 10 am to 6 pm  with the beacon lighting ceremony / live stream at 4:30 pm.

This annual event commemorates the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and the total loss of the 29 crew members aboard on November 10, 1975. It is also a time to reflect on the memory of all lives lost on the Great Lakes.

More information is available at mnhs.org/splitrock.