- Date
- 2017-10-02
- Kind
- Government disposition
- Where
- Lansing Shoal Light Station
- Carried out by
- organization/general-services-administration
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingpreservationgovernment
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In October 2017, a Beaver Island Forum notice reported that Lansing Shoal Lighthouse was being offered through a General Services Administration auction. The notice gave a reported high bid of $10,000 and a 21-day period to purchase the property.
Evidence limits
This record preserves the forum’s contemporaneous relay of the auction listing. It does not establish whether the auction closed, who acquired the lighthouse, or whether the reported bid represented a completed sale.
Sources
- The post linked to the GSA auction and reported a high bid of $10,000 and a 21-day purchase period. The forum copy is a relay of the auction listing; it does not establish the final bidder, sale completion, or later ownership.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012376
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Lansing Shoal Lighthouse offered through a federal auction, 2017”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/lansing-shoal-light-station-gsa-auction-2017/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Lansing Shoal Lighthouse being auctioned,” October 2, 2017..
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