Up Close and Personal with the Corgan Family and Gull Rock Lighthouse

Lighthouse’s seems to draw all kinds of people to them. From visitors, to ships seeking safe harbor. Off shore lights rarely see visitors, but are just as fascinating, if not more than their coastal counterparts. Tomorrow evening the Keweenaw County Historical Society, has invited Jeremiah Mason, descendant of the lighthouse keeper family, the Corgan family, and President of Gull Rock Light Keepers, to talk about off shore lighthouses and his family’s duties to the shipping industry in the Kewenaw Peninsula.

“Three generations of our family were lighthouse keepers. And they were assigned to keep light at Manitou Island, Copper Harbor, Gull Rock and Ontonagon. My great-great grand parents, were light hosue keepers. Both of them, my great-great grandfather, James Corgan, was the principle keeper, with his wife, Mary Ellen, was the assistant keeper, when they were stationed at these two lighthouses. They raised a family there. They had six kids, and a hired girl living on tiny little half acre Gull Rock.” – Jeremiah Mason, President, Gull Rock Light Keepers

Tomorrow’s Keweenaw County historical society summer presentation series, will detail  the Corgan family, the Gull Rock Lighthouse, Manitou Island’s light, and others in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Up Close and Personal: Keweenaw Lighthouses with Jeremiah Mason will begin at 7pm, at the Copper Harbor Community Building tomorrow, admission at the door is six dollars, or five dollars for Keweenaw County Historical Society members.