​Plum Island Lighthouse:

• Lighthouses of Lake Michigan, Past and Present by Wayne S. Sapulski

• Wisconsin Lighthouses, A Photographic and Historical Guide by Ken and Barb Wardius

• Death’s Door, The Pursuit of a Legend by Conan Bryant Eaton

• A Gleam Across the Wave, The Biography of Martin Nicolai Knudsen Lighthouse Keeper of Lake Michigan by Arthur and Evelyn Knudsen

• Washington Island Through the Years by Hannes M. Andersen

• Four Islands: A History of Detroit, Rock, St. Martins, and Washington Islands by Raymond McDonald

• Great Lakes Lighthouses, American & Canadian, A Comprehensive Directory / Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses by Wes Oleszewski

• Old Peninsula Days by H.R. Holand

• Thordarson and Rock Island, Chester Hjortur Hordarson – Richard Purinton

• Lighthouses & Range Lights of Door County, Wisconsin – Peter Bosman

• Wooden Boats and Iron Men, History of Commercial Fishing in Northern Lake Michigan & Door County 1850-2005 by Trygvie Jensen

• Door County’s Islands by Paul and Frances Burton

• Schooner Days in Door County by Walter M. and Mary K. Hirthe

• Ships and Shipwrecks in Door County, Wisconsin Volume One by Arthur C. and Lucy F. Frederickson

• Ships and Shipwrecks in Door County, Wisconsin Volume Two by Arthur C. and Lucy F. Frederickson

• Shipwrecks at Death’s Door by Cris Kohl and Joan Forsberg

• Door Peninsula Shipwrecks by Jon Paul Van Harpen

• Guarding Door County Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations by Stacy and Virginia Thomas

• The Naming, The Island Series by Conan Bryant Eaton

• Door County Tales; Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof by Gayle Soucek

• Keepers of the Lights, Lighthouse Keepers & Their Families Door County, Wisconsin – 1837 to 1939 by Steven Karges

• Life and Death of the Great Lakes by Dan Eagan

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US Life Saving Service / Coast Guard:

• Wreck Ashore, U.S. Life-Saving Service Legendary Heroes of the Great Lakes by Frederick Stonehouse

• The U.S. Life-Saving Service Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard – Ralph Shanks, Wick York, Lisa Wood Shanks

• The United States Life-Saving Service – 1880 by J.H. Merryman

• The Finest Hours by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman

• Mastering the Inland Seas by Theodore J. Karamanski

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US Fish & Wildlife Service:

• Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman

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