Station Crisp (Point), Michigan

June 4, 2021

Station Crisp (Point), Michigan

Location:

18 miles west of Whitefish Point, Lake Superior

Date of Conveyance:

1875

Station Built:

1876 (?)

Fate:

Turned over to the Department of the Interior in 1960

Remarks:

The Crisp Point Station occupied several sites at various points.   The erosion of the land caused the station to be moved frequently.

Keepers:

David Grummond (?) was appointed keeper on  17 MAR 1877 and left in 1878 (?)

Christopher Crisp was appointed keeper on 3 OCT 1878 and he was discharged on 18 MAR 1890.

Robert M. Small was appointed keeper on 4 APR 1890 and transferred to Station Ottawa Point on 6 NOV 1896.

Harry Gibb was appointed keeper on 2 APR 1897 and resigned on 20 OCT 1897.

James Hunter was appointed keeper on 17 NOV 1897 and resigned on 8 JUN 1904.

James Scott was appointed keeper on 31 MAY 1904 and left in 1915.

Daniel Shelson (acting) was appointed keeper in 1915.

Sources:

Station History File, CG Historian’s Office

Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes.  “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.”  Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.

Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks.  The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard.  Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.

U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard.  Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941.  Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.