Lighthouses of Lake Erie               Mohawk Isalnd 31 Established: 1848 Status:   Inactive; Ruins Location:   (ONT) South side of Mohawk Island Type:   Conical, limestone Access:   Boat       About the Light:   By the earhy 1930s, this light was on the way to obsolescence. Like traffic in the depression years was dwindling in this region and the route that led to the Welland Canal was moved it greater distance from this lighthouse. Then in 1932, the keeper and his son were trapped in the ice while leaving the light at the end of the season and froze to death. The next season the light was automated and later replaced by a lighted bouy. Today the light is abandoned and in a bad state of decay. Soon it will probably be claimted by Lake Erie just like its last keeper.             Select Another LightHouse Ashtabula Barcelona Bois Blanc (Bob-Lo) Buffalo Breakwater Buffalo Breakwater (Leaning) Buffalo Breakwater (Old Bottle Light) Buffalo Lightship (Lightvessel No. 82) Buffalo Main Cleveland East Pierhead Cleveland West Breakwater Colchester Reef Detroit River Dunkirk Erie Land Erie Pierhead Erieau East Pier Fairport Harbor West First Southeast Shoal Lightship Grand Island Old Front Range Grosse Ile North Channel Horseshoe Reef Huron Harbor Kingsville Leamington Light Long Point Long Point West End (Old Cut) Lorain East Breakwater Lorain West Breakwater Marblehead (Sandusky) Mohawk Island Old Fairport Main (Grand River) Old Port Clinton Pier Pelee Island Pelee Passage Point Abino Port Burwell Port Dover Port Maitland Front Range Port Stanley Presque Isle Sandusky Harbor Pierhead South Bass Island South Buffalo Southside Southeast Shoal Toledo Harbor Turtle Island Vermilion West Sister Island