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Built in 1911, the West Pierhead Light guides ships and boats into Cleveland's Harbor and the river Native Americans named the "Cuyahoga", meaning twisting or crooked. The light was fitted with a fourth-order Fresnel Lens that cast a beacon 10 miles out across Lake Erie. In 1916 the fog signal building was added which due to the sound it made soon became known to the locals as the "Cow". The light was automated in 1965 and the Fresnel lens moved to the Great Lakes Science Center.