There is a lighthouse station on the point.
The Minnesota Historical Society took over management of the lighthouse station in 1976.
It is also the oldest lighthouse station in Norway, first lit in 1655.
In 1920 the lighthouse station got its first fogsignal, a sirene.
The original lighthouse station was designed by Carl Leick and established in 1887.
Only a stone oil house remains from the lighthouse station, missing its door and roof.
The remaining lighthouse station is "one of the most complete light stations in the United States".
The current lighthouse station was established in 1837.
The only surviving structure from the lighthouse station is a stone oil house, and its door and roof are missing.
The location had been used as big, memorialatic a lighthouse stations since far back as 1829.
