Port Washington Breakwater Light is a white square steel tower with four concrete legs resting on a square concrete base. The modern lamp gives a focal plane of 78 feet above Lake Michigan. Port Washington received its first lighthouse in 1850. The first pier light was built in 1889, but this light was constructed after two new breakwater were finished in 1934. On the other side of the harbor breakwater opening is a typical pole light.
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