basis of an 1836 treaty; the local DNR district also objected to the swap, saying that the south island was more important to its mission than the north. After several years of hearings, the swap proposal was modified in 2001 to leave the portion incorporating the light station in the hands of the state; after the tribal claim was denied by the courts in the following year, the swap was allowed to proceed. Preservation efforts began in 1984, when a band of ten members of the Michigan Youth Corp performed a cleanup of the light station grounds. In 2002 the Fox Island Education Association was formed, which became the Fox Island Lighthouse Association in 2005 when it applied for nonprofit status. Description The South Fox Island Light Station includes 9 buildings spread over about ten acres. The most significant is the Lighthouse and Keeper’s Dwelling, constructed in 1867. The building is constructed from yellow brick which has been painted. The lighthouse tower is square and four stories tall, with windows on the first three floors and a decagonal iron lantern room on the fourth. The tower projects from the center of the façade of the dwelling, which is a single-story, front-gable building. The tower is flanked by six-over-six wood windows, with additional windows on other elevations, along with a hipped dormer in the gable roof. A shed addition is in the rear of the building. Near the light is the Assistant Keepers’ Quarters, constructed in 1910. This is a two-story side-gable triplex, constructed of red brick. The dwelling contains three units: a two-story one at the east end and one unit on each floor at the west end. About 365 feet from these buildings are the Fog Signal Building and a skeletal tower. The fog signal building is a frame, one-story, hip-roof building constructed in 1895. The nearby tower is a pyramidal steel structure, 28 feet square at the base and 104 feet tall. It was originally built in 1905 on Sapelo Island, Georgia, but was moved an reassembled at the present location in 1934. Also nearby is an 1895 oil house, an 1897 boathouse, an 1897 workshop, and a 1900 smokehouse. A modern outhouse and maintenance shed are also on the location, as well as a small cemetery containing two graves and the remains of a dock in the water. References External links Fox Island Lighthouse Association Lighthouses completed