AVERY ROCK LIGHT


BAKER ISLAND LIGHT

MT. DESERT ISLAND/SOMES SOUND APPROACH
Station Established: 1828
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1966
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1855


BASS HARBOR HEAD LIGHT

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND
Station Established: 1858
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1858
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1974
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL


BEAR ISLAND LIGHT

BEAR ISLAND/NORTHEAST HARBOR
Station Established: 1839
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1889
Operational? YES
Automated? YES
Deactivated: 1981-1989
Foundation Materials: GRANITE RUBBLE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL ATTACHED TO WORKROOM
Markings/Pattern: EXPOSED BRICK TOWER W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1858


BLUE HILL BAY LIGHTS

ON GREEN ISLAND/BLUE HILL BAY
Station Established: 1857
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1935
Deactivated:
Foundation Materials: CONCRETE??
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Markings/Pattern: CYLINDRICAL
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1857


BOON ISLAND LIGHT

BOON ISLAND OFF YORK BEACH
Station Established: 1811
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1980
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: GRANITE
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: SECOND ORDER, FRESNEL 1855

GENERAL INFORMATION:

President James Madison authorized the building of Boon Island Lighthouse during the War of 1812. A new lighthouse tower was erected near the old tower in 1855, consisting of a gray granite conical tower, 133 feet above the water, 6?2 miles off the coast of Maine.

As Boon Island is a very flat piece of land, well surrounded by ledges, the tower appears at times to be springing up from the sea from a submerged ledge, especially when low clouds are flying. One of the most isolated stations off the Maine coast, it is also one of the most dangerous.

One story is told of how the keepers were once marooned on the island for several weeks because of storms and rough weather. Their food supplies were low and starvation seemed to be staring them in the face. Just at the point of desperation a boat appeared and they signaled for help. The keeper?s message in a bottle was picked up by the passing schooner which hove to and anchored until the sea went down. Then the crew packed some food in a mackerel barrel and set it afloat. It drifted right into a little cove on the island and then the sea caught it and bounced it well up on the bank, out of the way of the surf. The hunger of the keepers was appeased until they were able to go ashore and get supplies at the village of York.

Today the fixed white electric light on Boon Island shows its 120,000 candlepower from a second-order lens for a distance of 18 miles.


BROWNS HEAD LIGHT

NW END OF VINALHAVEN ISLAND
Station Established: 1832
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1987
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1857


BURNT COAT HARBOR LIGHT

HOCKAMOCK HEAD/SWANS ISLAND
Station Established: 1872
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1872
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1975
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: MASONRY
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL


BURNT ISLAND LIGHT

BOOTHBAY HARBOR ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1821
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1821
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1989
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: RUBBLE STONE
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: LEWIS PATENT REFLECTORS


CAPE ELIZABETH LIGHTS

CASCO BAY ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1828
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1874
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1963
Deactivated: WEST TOWER WAS DEACTIVATED IN 1924.
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: CAST IRON
Tower Shape: CONICAL ATTACHED TO ENTRANCE ROOM; East Tower: CONICAL W/OUT LANTERN
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK TRIM; East Tower: WHITE
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: SECOND ORDER, FRESNEL 1874

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Two rubblestone towers were first erected on Cape Elizabeth in 1828 at a cost of $4,250. President John Quincy Adams appointed Elisha Jordan as the first keeper in October 1828 at a salary of $450 per year. In 1855 Fresnel lenses were installed and in 1869 a giant steam whistle was set up for use in foggy weather. In 1873 the rubble towers were taken down and two cast-iron edifices erected, 300 yards apart. One was a fixed and one a flashing light. A fog siren replaced the locomotive whistle.

One of the most thrilling episodes in the history of the lighthouse occurred on January 28, 1885, when Keeper Marcus A. Hanna saved two crew members of the schooner Australia which had grounded on the ledge near the fog signal station. The two men had taken to the rigging and were coated with ice, unable to move. The captain was drowned as a huge comber washed the deck. Keeper Hanna, securing a heavy iron weight to the end of a stout line, attempted time and again to reach the men with it. Suddenly a towering wave struck the schooner and smashed her against the rocks, putting her on her beam ends.

Keeper Hanna again threw his line and watched it land on the schooner. One of the seamen managed to reach it and bent it around his waist. Then he jumped into the sea and the keeper, with great effort, pulled him up over the rocky ledge. The keeper now heaved the line a second time and finally it reached the second seaman who wound it around his icy body. Then he too jumped into the ocean. Just as the keeper?s strength was exhausted in trying to haul ashore the second man, help came in the shape of the keeper?s assistant and two neighbors, who helped haul the man to safety.

In the 1920?s the west tower of Cape Elizabeth Light was dismantled.

The light, at the south entrance to Portland Harbor, is equipped with a 1,800,000 candlepower light visible for 17 miles. The white conical tower is 67 feet above ground and 129 feet above water.


CAPE NEDDICK "THE NUBBLE" LIGHT

OFF CAPE NEDDICK/YORK HARBOR
Station Established: 1879
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1879
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1987
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: CONCRETE
Construction Materials: CAST IRON PLATE W/BRICK LINING
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1879


CRABTREE LEDGE LIGHT


CUCKOLDS (THE) LIGHT

CAPE NEWAGEN/BOOTH BAY APPROACH
Station Established: 1892
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1907
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1975
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE (PARTIALLY DESTROYED) W/RED TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Boothbay Harbor was a busy fishing port in the 19th and early 20th century. The barren rock upon which the Cuckold station is located was first marked by a wooden tripod daymark. Because the daymark was of little use at nighttime or in foggy weather, a fog signal station was established in 1892. A light tower was added to the station in 1907 due to increased fishing vessel traffic in the bay. The station was automated in 1975.

The Lighthouse Board Report for 1890 described the need for a fog-signal station at Cuckolds as follows:

"The Cuckolds consist of two rocky islets rising about 15 feet above high water in the westerly edge of the channel at the entrance to Booth Bay. The Atlantic Coast Pilot says of them: They are dangerous of approach on their southern side on account of the reefs in that direction, and the shoals also extend half a mile to the westward of the western rock, ... but the eastward side of the eastern rock is quite bold-to. The flood current sets right on these rocks. They are much dreaded by mariners in thick weather and are a great peril to a large number of vessels, as it is estimated that from three to four thousand enter the bay for refuge in Booth Bay Harbor, which is well protected and is one of the most useful and important harbors of refuge on the coast of Maine. It is therefore recommended that a fog-signal be placed on the Cuckolds of sufficient range to warn vessels of their approach. Numerous petitions have been received asking for the establishment of this fog-signal, and the Board, after careful investigation, has found that a fog-signal of sufficient range upon the easterly island of the Cuckolds will give vessels adequate warning of their approach and would be of great benefit to navigators. It is estimated that a keeper's dwelling, fog-signal house, cistern, bulkhead, machinery, etc., will cost $25,000, and an appropriation of this amount is recommended therefor. This was authorized by the act of August 30, 1890, but no appropriation was made for doing the work."

Meanwhile, the State of Maine deeded the Cuckolds to the United States on June 30, 1890 for use as a fog signal station.

Cuckolds Fog Signal Station, 1892

Congress appropriated $25,000 for a fog signal at or near Cuckolds Island, Boothbay or Townsend Harbor, Maine, on March 3, 1891. The fog signal at the station consisted of a compressed hot air, first-order Daboll trumpet in duplicate. In 1893, it was reported the fog signal machinery was overhauled and repaired. A 1,000-pound bell was installed as a back up while getting up the air pressure on the Daboll trumpet. In 1897, it was reported that two fences were built to protect the station against the wind. It was reported in 1898 that the direction of the fog signal was changed so that it could be heard in a more useful direction. In 1901, it was reported that the fog signal machinery was overhauled and repaired. The concrete apron along the underpinning of all the buildings was repainted and the concrete floor of the balcony was renewed. In 1902, it was reported that the old hot air fog signal apparatus was replaced by a modern oil-operated engine made in the machine shop in Boston. In 1904, it was reported that the fog-signal plant was overhauled. Reports show, in 1907, a brick water cistern was built for the fog signal.

In 1904, the first-order Daboll trumpet at the Cuckolds fog signal plant was described as consisting of 4-horsepower oil engines, air compressors, and air tanks all in duplicate. It carried 4 pounds of pressure, and 1.2 cubic feet of free air were used during a second of blast. The fog signal station operated some 1,220 hours and consumed about 573 gallons of oil in 1904; operated some 1,112 hours and consumed about 549 gallons of oil in 1905; operated some 1,040 hours and consumed about 507 gallons of oil in 1906; and operated some 1,236 hours and consumed about 507 gallons of oil in 1907. In comparison, the hot air fog signal equipment in 1901 ran some 1,003 hours and consumed about 6 tons of coal. In 1902, the equipment ran some 797 hours using about five tons of coal before being changed over to oil, which operated some 423 hours and used about 195 gallons of oil.

In 1933, the fog signal consisted of a first class reed horn with a 3-second blast followed by 17 seconds of silence. A bell was used if the horn was disabled. By 1971, the fog signal was changed to a diaphragm air horn with a blast of 2.5 seconds and a silent period of 17.5 seconds.

Cuckolds Light Station, 1907

There was limited room on the island so a wooden light tower was built upon the brick fog signal building. The light station was described in 1930 as consisting of 7 acres, more or less of rocks, with the following improvements: a dwelling and fog signal house surmounted by a tower, boathouse and slip, bulkhead. The land was valued at nothing and the improvements at $32,000. The light was identified as giving a double white flash every six seconds. The light was described in 1933 as having a characteristic of a white flash for 0.3 seconds followed by an eclipse of 1.7 seconds followed by a white flash of 0.3 seconds followed by an eclipse of 3.7 seconds. The candlepower was 24,000 provided by an incandescent oil vapor lamp and fourth-order lens. The light was visible up to 13 miles.

By 1946 and through at least 1951, the light had the same light characteristic, but the candlepower was increased to 30,000 fueled by an electric lamp and fourth-order lens. By 1971, the intensity of the light was increased to 500,000 candlepower indicated by station's resident personnel. By 1987, the light characteristic had changed to a one second white flash followed by a one second eclipse followed by a one second white flash followed by a three second eclipse. The original fourth-order lens is in the collection of the Shore Village Museum, Rockland, Maine.

In September 1925, keeper Fred T. Robinson saved several persons from a disabled vessel, which was rapidly drifting out to sea. During the great storm of January 27 and 28, 1933, the bulkhead protecting the station was torn away and much of the contents of the assistant keeper's dwelling were destroyed. The assistant keeper was reimbursed by the Department of Commerce for his losses including his radio and Hawaiian guitar. At some point, a radio beacon was established at Cuckolds to aid the mariner in electronic navigation. The keeper's dwelling was destroyed during a blizzard in 1978. George A. Lewis was assigned to the station when it became a light station. Captain Elliott replaced Lewis until his transfer to Cape Elizabeth Light Station. On March 8, 1934, Justin A. Foss became keeper. H. E. Seavey was his assistant.

Click here to access the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Cuckolds Light Station.

Lighthouse was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 2 December 2002.


CURTIS ISLAND LIGHT

CAMDEN HARBOR ENTRANCE/PENOBSCOT BAY
Station Established: 1835
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1896
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1972
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: CONCRETE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL


DEER ISLAND THOROFARE LIGHT

MARK ISLAND/DEER ISLAND THOROFARE
Station Established: 1857
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1958
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: MASONRY
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK & RED TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER


DICE HEAD LIGHT

PENOBSCOT RIVER MOUTH
Station Established: 1829
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1829
Operational? NO
Automated? NO
Deactivated: 1937
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE RUBBLESTONE/BRICK LIN.
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: LEWIS PATENT APPARATUS 1828

GENERAL INFORMATION:

On the tip end of the peninsula that forms the mouth of the Penobscot River stands the now unwatched Dice Head Lighthouse. Built in 1829 and remodeled in 1858, the lighthouse is now just one more monument to the historic "Pentagoet" region. Here the first white settlers of 1614, French traders under La Tour, gave way to the British from the Plymouth colony led by Isaac Allerton in 1629. The French retook Castine in 1635 only to be again driven out by the British in 1654. Sixteen years later Hubert d?Andigny once more occupied this strategic key town to the Penobscot River for the French. In 1674, a Flemish corsair captured the garrison. Two years later the wealthy and adventurous Baron de St. Castine took over the town, which still bears his name. Married to the daughter of the Indian Chief, Madoca-wando, he became a powerful influence among the Indians and the town became a thriving shipping port.

Six years after the original light was built in 1829 Capt. Henry D. Hunter of the United States revenue cutter Jackson inspected it. "This light," he reported, "should be located on the northern head of Holbrook Island, at the eastern entrance to Castine Harbor. It would then answer as a guide up the Penobscot River and a harbor light." The lighthouse was rebuilt in 1937 and is now a white skeleton tower on the north side of the entrance to Castine Harbor, 27 feet above water. Its 8,000 candlepower acetelyne light flashes white every 4 seconds and is visible for 10 miles.


DOUBLING POINT (KENNEBEC RIVER) RANGE LIGHTS

ARROWSIC ISLAND/KENNEBEC RIVER
Station Established: 1898
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1898
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1980
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/RED TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER REFLECTOR


DOUBLING POINT LIGHT

ARROWSIC ISLAND/KENNEBEC RIVER
Station Established: 1898
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1899
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1988
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCK CAISSON
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE TOWER AT END OF FOOTBRIDGE
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1902


EAGLE ISLAND LIGHT

EAST PENOBSCOT BAY
Station Established: 1838
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1858
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1963
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE RUBBLESTONE
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1858


EGG ROCK LIGHT

ENTRANCE TO FRENCHMANS BAY NEAR WINTER HARBOR
Station Established: 1875
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1875
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1976
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE W/REPLICA ALUMINUM LANTERN
Markings/Pattern: WHITE TOWER ON RED ROOF
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL


FORT POINT LIGHT

ENTRANCE TO PENOBSCOT RIVER
Station Established: 1837
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1988
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: CREAM W/BLACK TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1837


FRANKLIN ISLAND LIGHT

MUSCONGUS BAY
Station Established: 1805
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1967
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/GREY & RED TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER


GOAT ISLAND LIGHT

GOAT ISLAND/CAPE PORPOISE HARBOR
Station Established: 1835
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1859
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1990
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER


GOOSE ROCKS LIGHT

EAST ENTRANCE FOX ISLANDS THOROFARE
Station Established: 1890
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1890
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1963
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: CAST IRON/CONCRETE CAISSON
Construction Materials: CAST IRON
Tower Shape: SPARKPLUG
Markings/Pattern: WHITE TOWER, BLACK BASE & TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER


GREAT DUCK ISLAND LIGHT

BLUE HILL BAY APPROACH
Station Established: 1890
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1890
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1986
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: TIMBER/STONE
Construction Materials: BRICK/GRANITE
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL


GRINDLE POINT LIGHT

GILKEY HARBOR
Station Established: 1850
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1874
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1934
Deactivated: 1934-1987
Foundation Materials: CONCRETE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL


HALFWAY ROCK LIGHT

CASCO BAY OFF BAILEY ISLAND
Station Established: 1871
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1871
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1975
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE
Construction Materials: GRANITE
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL 1871


HENDRICKS HEAD LIGHT

SHEEPSCOT RIVER ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1829
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1875
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1975
Deactivated: 1935-1951
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: PLAIN WHITEWASH W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1875


HERON NECK LIGHT

GREEN'S ISLAND
Station Established: 1854
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1854
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1982
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/RED & BLACK TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL


INDIAN ISLAND LIGHT

INDIAN ISLAND/ROCKPORT HARBOR
Station Established: 1850
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1874
Operational? NO
Automated? NO
Deactivated: 1934
Foundation Materials:
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1856


ISLE AU HAUT (ROBINSON POINT) LIGHT

ROBINSON POINT
Station Established: 1907
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1907
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1959
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Construction Materials: GRANITE/BRICK
Tower Shape: LOWER CONICAL/UPPER CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: LOWER GREY/UPPER WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1907


LIBBY ISLAND LIGHT

MACHIAS BAY ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1822
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1848
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1974
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1855


LITTLE RIVER LIGHT

LITTLE RIVER ISLAND/CUTLER HARBOR
Station Established: 1847
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1876
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1974
Deactivated: 1975
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Construction Materials: CAST IRON/BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1855


LUBEC CHANNEL LIGHT

LUBEC CHANNEL
Station Established: 1890
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1890
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1968
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: CONCRETE/CAST IRON CAISSON
Construction Materials: CAST IRON W/BRICK LINING
Tower Shape: CONICAL "SPARK PLUG"
Markings/Pattern: WHITE TOWER ON BLACK CYLINDRICAL PIER
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1890


MANANA ISLAND FOG SIGNAL STATION

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Lighthouse Board report for 1853 stated:

"I think it of great importance that there should be a bell at Monhegan. The light-house is so far from the point where the bell should be situated, that the light-keeper could not attend to it, and it will be advisable, therefore, to have a house built on which the bell might be placed; and a man should be appointed whose sole duty should be to take charge of the bell. The proper site for the bell is on a small island which lies off Monhegan, called Manana. For the house and bell, and for purchasing the land, the sum of $3,500 will be necessary."

An act of Congress, approved August 3, 1854, appropriated $3,500 for the establishment of a fog signal and keeper's dwelling for Manana Island, Maine. A 1/4 acre of land with right of way to the water was purchased from the Monhegan Plantations heirs for $53.98. In 1855, a 2,500 pound fog signal bell, cast in Boston in 1832, was mounted on a 24 foot-tall wooden frame attached to the keeper's dwelling. The fog bell was 55 feet above sea level and approximately one mile due west of the lighthouse on Monhegan Island. The fog signal was struck by hand until a J.D. Custer striking machine was installed in 1856.

An act of Congress approved July 28, 1866, appropriated funds for new & efficient fog signals including Manana Island. As a result, in 1870, the fog bell was replaced with a six-inch Ericsson engine and ten-inch Daboll trumpet, giving a 15-second blast every 55 seconds. In 1872, the Daboll trumpet was removed to Portland Head, Maine, and a six-inch steam fog whistle was installed, giving two 5-second blast every 60 seconds.21

In 1876, the Manana Island fog signal was made into a separate station from the Monhegan Light Station. The fog signal site was considered too low and the sound masked in some directions by neighboring hills. Because of difficulty in obtaining title to a better site, the height of the signal was raised and the six-inch fog whistle replaced with a eight-inch whistle. The keeper's dwelling was raised 18-inches (apparently unrelated to the fog signal heightening) and exterior siding covered with clapboard, and a new sill and under floors were installed. A frame engine house for a duplicate fog-signal apparatus was built adjoining the keeper's dwelling, and a 50-foot-long boat way was built. In 1877, a first-class Daboll trumpet, operated by duplicate 32-inch caloric engines, was installed in the new engine house. The new fog signal characteristic was a 15-second blast every 40 seconds.

In 1887, it was reported the engine house was lathed and plastered, but in 1889, the frame engine house was demolished and a brick fog-signal house built on the same site. A new brick water cistern was also built for the dwelling. Brick underpinnings were also installed under the frame dwelling. In 1896, the old summer kitchen was enlarged and made into an assistant keeper's quarters. The signal house was turned into a fuel house, and a small engine-operated wire cable for carrying coal was erected between the top of the hill of the island and the boathouse.

In 1899, a four horsepower Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine and a Clayton air compressor in duplicate replaced the caloric engines. The interior of the keeper's house was rearranged and a two room ell attached. In 1900, a cooling tank was built, the cistern repaired, and a ceiling put into the fog signal house. The fog signal characteristic was changed to blasts of 10-seconds every 30 seconds. In 1901, the engine, formerly used to operate a fog bell, was installed for purposes of hauling supplies by tram from the boathouse to the station site. In 1905, the tram was moved to the government right of way, the boat way and boathouse rebuilt on the right of way, and an engine house with hoisting engine installed. In 1906, an oil house and close board fence were built.

In 1912, a first-class air siren, giving a group of three blasts of 3-seconds duration every 25 seconds followed by a silent interval of 35 seconds, replaced the first-class Daboll trumpet. The air siren signal was described in 1933 as a group of three blasts every 60 seconds: 3 blasts of 3-seconds each, followed by a period of silence of 35 seconds. The fog signal building was described as a brown, brick house. In 1946 and 1951, the station was described as consisting of an air diaphragm horn with radio beacon distance-finding station. In 1987, the station signal was described as 2 blasts every 20 seconds. The radio beacon and brick brown house were still reported as extant in 1987. The radio beacon tower was removed in 1995; the fog signal bell and boathouse were removed in the early 1990s.

The fog signal station was described in 1930 as consisting of a brick fog signal house, two dwellings, an oil house, a boat house and slip, a tramway from boat house to dwelling, and a donkey boiler house, and fuel house. The land was appraised at $75 and the improvements at $21,575.23

Fog Signal

The first fog signal used at the station was a fog bell that operated from 1855 until replaced with a steam operated first-class Daboll trumpet in 1870. The fog bell was retained as an emergency backup. In 1872 until 1876, the trumpet was replaced with a steam operated fog whistle. The whistle was not powerful enough for the site and was replaced in 1877 by a new first-class Daboll trumpet. The signal operated for 1,049 hours in 1884, operated for 1,211 hours in 1885, operated for 1,438 hours in 1886, operated for 1,577 hours consuming 31,460 pounds of coal in 1888, operated for 1,805 hours consuming approximately 16 ton of coal in 1890, operated for 1,122 hours consuming approximately 132 tons of coal in 1892, operated for 1,038 hours consuming approximately 13 tons of coal in 1893, and operated for 1,181 hours consuming approximately 16 tons of coal in 1894. The station used coal until 1902 when oil engines were installed still using a first-class Daboll trumpet. In 1912, the first-class Daboll trumpet was replaced with a first-class air siren. The present fog signal is a diaphone horn.

In 1910, $2,000 was authorized for a light and fog signal or whistling buoy with submarine signal to aid this station. On March 4, 1911, appropriations for $10,000 were made to improve the light at Monhegan Island and fog signal at Manana Island.

Keepers

In about 1877, a telegraph wire connecting Monhegan and Manana Island allowed the keeper at Monhegan to activate an electric gong situated in the bedroom wall of the fog signal station on Manana alerting that keeper that a fog bank was rolling in.

Keepers at Monhegan Island Light Station assigned to Manana:

Sylvester Davis October 15, 1855-February 27, 1857
Thomas Kinney February 27, 18857-March 29, 1857
Henry T. Studley March 29, 1861-November 19, 1870
Francis A. Brackett May 29, 1871-December, 1872
Bradbury Emerson, 1st Asst. December 13, 1872-October 30, 1873
Andrew J. Marston, 1st Asst. December 26, 1873-February 28, 1876
Frank E. Adams, 1st Asst. March 16, 1876-April 11, 1876

Keepers assigned to Manana Fog Signal Station:

Frank E. Adams April 11, 1876-March 24, 1878
John W. Williams March 25, 1878-January, 1883
Charles S. Williams January, 1883-June, 1890
Daniel Stevens June, 1890-September, 1902
Frank C. Pierce, Asst. February, 1895-September, 1902
Frank C. Pierce September, 1902-November 2, 1916
Edward S. Farren, Asst. September, 1902-March 1913
Eugene W. Osgood, Asst. March 1913-
Charles G. Dyer November 3, 1916-
The last civilian keeper was Henley C. Day who retired in 1956. Coast Guard personnel manned the station until automated in about 1986.

Click here to access the Manana Island Fog Signal Station's National Register of Historic Places nomination.

Station was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 2 December 2002.


MARSHALL POINT LIGHT

PORT CLYDE HARBOR ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1832
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1980
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Construction Materials: GRANITE WITH BRICK ABOVE
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1857


MATINICUS ROCK LIGHT (TWIN TOWERS)

6 MILES SOUTH OF MATINICUS ISLAND
Station Established: 1827
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1983
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL 1857


MONHEGAN ISLAND LIGHT

MONHEGAN ISLAND
Station Established: 1824
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1850
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1959
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: SECOND ORDER, FRESNEL 1856


MOOSE PEAK LIGHT

MISTAKE ISLAND/EASTERN BAY
Station Established: 1827
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1851
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1972
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: MASONRY
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: SECOND ORDER, FRESNEL 1856


MOUNT DESERT ROCK LIGHT

SOUTH OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND
Station Established: 1830
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1847
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1977
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL 1858


NARRAGUAGUS (POND ISLAND) LIGHT

E. SIDE POND ISLAND/NARRAGUAGUS BAY
Station Established: 1853
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1853
Operational? NO
Automated? NO
Deactivated: 1934
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL ATTACHED TO WORKROOM
Markings/Pattern: WHITE
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens:


NASH ISLAND LIGHT

SE MOUTH OF PLEASANT BAY
Station Established: 1838
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1874
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1958
Deactivated: 1982
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: WHITE
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1874


OWLS HEAD LIGHT

W. PENOBSCOT BAY/ROCKLAND HARBOR
Station Established: 1825
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1852
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1989
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: REFLECTOR 1826


PEMAQUID POINT LIGHT

ENTRANCE TO MUSCONGUS BAY
Station Established: 1827
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1835
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1934
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: RUBBLE STONE
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: ARGAND LAMPS


PERKINS ISLAND LIGHT

PERKINS ISLAND/KENNEBEC RIVER
Station Established: 1898
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1898
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1959
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: BRICK
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/RED LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER


PETIT MANAN LIGHT

OFF PETIT MANAN POINT
Station Established: 1817
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1972
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS W/BRICK LINING
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE


POND ISLAND LIGHT

KENNEBEC RIVER ENTRANCE WEST SIDE
Station Established: 1821
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1855
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1963
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER


PORTLAND BREAKWATER LIGHT ("BUG LIGHT")

PORTLAND HARBOR
Station Established: 1855
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1875
Operational? NO
Automated? YES 1934
Deactivated: 1942
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCK CAISSON
Construction Materials: IRON PLATE W/BRICK LINING
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: RESEMBLES 4TH CENTURY GREEK MONUMENT
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: SIXTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1855


PORTLAND HEAD LIGHT

PORTLAND HARBOR/CASCO BAY
Station Established: 1791
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1791
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1989
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: RUBBLE STONE W/BRICK LINING
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK TRIM
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1855

GENERAL INFORMATION:

George Washington engaged two masons from the town of Portland in 1787, while Maine was still part of the colony of Massachusetts, and instructed them to take charge of the construction of a lighthouse on Portland Head. They were Jonathan Bryant and John Nichols. George Washington reminded them that the colonial Government was poor and that the materials used to build the lighthouse should be taken from the fields and shores. They could be handled nicely when hauled by oxen on a drag, he said.

The old tower, built of rubblestone, still stands as one of the four colonial lighthouses that have never been rebuilt. Washington gave the masons 4 years to build the tower. While it was under construction the Federal Government was formed in 1789 and it looked for a while, as though the lighthouse would not be finished. But the first Congress made an appropriation and authorized Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, to inform the mechanics that they could go on with the completion of the tower. The tower was completed during the year 1790 and first lighted January 10, 1791.

During the Civil War, raids on shipping in and out of Portland Harbor became common place, and because of the necessity for ships at sea to sight Portland Head Light as soon as possible, the tower was raised 8 feet. Today Portland Head Light stands 80 feet above ground and 101 feet above water, its white conical tower being connected with a dwelling. The 200,000 candlepower, second-order electric light, is visible 16 miles. An air-chime diaphragm horn blasts every 20 seconds, for 4 seconds during fog.


PROSPECT HARBOR POINT LIGHT

PROSPECT HARBOR POINT
Station Established: 1850
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1891
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1951
Deactivated: 1859-1870
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Construction Materials: WOOD FRAME
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1870


PUMPKIN ISLAND LIGHT

EGGEMOGGIN REACH/PENOBSCOT BAY
Station Established: 1854
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1854
Operational? NO
Automated? UNK
Deactivated: 1933
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE TOWER W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1854


RAM ISLAND LEDGE LIGHT

PORTLAND HARBOR/CASCO BAY
Station Established: 1905
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1905
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1959
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials:
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER 1905


RAM ISLAND LIGHT

RAM ISLAND/BOOTHBAY HARBOR
Station Established: 1883
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1883
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1965
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: GRANITE BLOCK CAISSON
Construction Materials: BRICK ON GRANITE
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/NATURAL CAISSON & BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1881


ROCKLAND HARBOR BREAKWATER LIGHT

JAMESON POINT/ROCKLAND HARBOR
Station Established: 1827
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1902
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1964
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: TIMBER/GRANITE PIER
Construction Materials: DRESSED STONE/BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE TOWER ON FOG SIGNAL BUILDING
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER


SADDLEBACK LEDGE LIGHT

ISLE AU HAUT BAY
Station Established: 1839
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1839
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1954
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: GRANITE
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL ON WHITE BASE
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER 1856

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Built in 1839, Saddleback Ledge Lighthouse is one of the most lonely outposts on the Maine coast. I. W. P. Lewis, .who inspected the lighthouse in the early fifties characterized it as "the only establishment on the coast of Maine that possesses any claim whatever to superiority. The sea breaks quite over the lantern in a southwest gale ? it is the most economical and durable structure that came under my observation? the only one ever erected in New England by an architect and engineer."

"The weirdest experience I have had since being in the service," reported Keeper W. W. Wells in 1935 "was the bombardment we got on a February night way back in 1927, when to my surprise I picked up 124 sea birds around the tower. They were ducks and drakes. Some were alive but the most were dead. Darkness had come on and with it came all the evidence that we were going to get a sou?easter. As the storm struck so did the cannonading ? Crash. . and a bird came sailing through a pane of glass, dropping at my feet. He began fluttering around the floor with one wing broken and his bill telescoped almost through his head. He did not live long. In came another and away went another windowpane. The phenomenon was repeated again and again until the birds began to pile up like a mound."

"Just when I thought the cannonading had ceased, one big sea drake struck the plate glass in the tower lantern and came through without asking for a transfer. When he struck he broke up the works. Before he stopped he put out the light and broke prisms out of the lens. The bird weighed 10 pounds." After he had made repairs and got the light burning again, a strange sight greeted the keeper. At the base of the tower was a tremendous heap of sea birds, some dead others alive. "Those that were just dazed" he recounted "and needed to recuperate, we placed in the boathouse and next day they went on their way."

The conical gray tower, with a white base stands 42 feet above ground and 54 feet above water. The 2,000 candlepower, fourth-order incandescent oil vapor fixed white light is visible for 13 miles.


SAINT CROIX RIVER LIGHT


SEGUIN ISLAND LIGHT

KENNEBEC RIVER/SOUTH OF GEORGETOWN
Station Established: 1795
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1985
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS/BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL 1857


SPRING POINT LEDGE LIGHT

PORTLAND HARBOR
Station Established: 1897
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1897
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1934
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: BRICK/IRON CAISSON
Construction Materials: CAST IRON/BRICK
Tower Shape: CONICAL "SPARK PLUG"
Markings/Pattern: WHITE ON BLACK PIER W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1897


SQUIRREL POINT LIGHT

ARROWSIC ISLAND/KENNEBEC RIVER
Station Established: 1898
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1898
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1992
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: STONE BLOCK ON SURFACE
Construction Materials: WOOD
Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL ATTACHED TO SIGNAL BLDG.
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/ BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1902


TENANTS HARBOR LIGHT

SOUTHERN ISLAND
Station Established: 1857
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? NO
Automated? UNK
Deactivated: 1933
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1857


TWO BUSH ISLAND LIGHT

TWO BUSH CHANNEL/PENOBSCOT BAY APPROACH
Station Established: 1897
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1897
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1964
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: SQUARE
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER 1897


WEST QUODDY HEAD LIGHT

WEST QUODDY HEAD/BAY OF FUNDY
Station Established: 1808
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1858
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1988
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: MASONRY
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: RED & WHITE BANDS W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL 1858
Focal Plane: 83 feet above sea level
Visibility: Approximately 18 miles; 35,000 candlepower
Foghorn: Automated

Chronology:

1806: Lighthouse at West Passamaquoddy Head, Maine, first authorized by Congress.
1808: Light station established on 21 April 1808 at a cost of $5,000. The first keeper was Thomas Dexter.
1820: On May 15, Congress authorizes the first fog signal, a 500-pound bell, at the station for a cost of $1,000.
1939: Howard Grey was the last civilian keeper of the station prior to its transfer to the U.S. Coast Guard.
1962: As of 15 August 1962 BM1 Bruce Keene was OIC, or Officer-in-Charge (dates of the time he began and ended his tour are not presently known--he served at least through September 1964.) According to documents in the West Quoddy file, his father, LT Thomas Keene, had previously served as the head keeper of the light station.
1963: As of 27 October Keene was still OIC and (Engineman?) Richard Copeland was his assistant.
1978: Through 31 May the OIC was BM1 Cliffton Scholfield. He had a crew of two assistants: MT2 Carl Hatch and MT# Davis Blanding.
1978: On 1 June, BM2 George Eaton took over as the OIC of the station. He had two assistants.
1979: MK3 Carl Hatch was a member of the crew.
1981: As of 14 September, the OIC was BM1 John Richardson.
1988: The light was automated in July 1988. The last OIC (keeper) was Malcolm Rouse, USCG.


WHALEBACK LEDGE LIGHT

PORTSMOUTH HARBOR/PISCATAQUA RIVER
Station Established: 1820
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1872
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1963
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: STONE/TIMBER
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL
Relationship to Other Structure: INTEGRAL
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1855

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WHITEHEAD ISLAND LIGHT

WHITEHEAD ISLAND/PENOBSCOT BAY SOUTHERN ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1807
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1852
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1982
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE/ASPHALT
Tower Shape: CONICAL ATTACHED TO SERVICE ROOM
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER FIXED, FRESNEL 1855


WHITLOCKS MILL LIGHT

ST. CROIX RIVER SOUTH BANK
Station Established: 1892
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1910
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1969
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: DRESSED STONE/TIMBER
Construction Materials: BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1892


WINTER HARBOR LIGHT

MARK ISLAND/WINTER HARBOR
Station Established: 1856
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1856
Operational? NO
Automated? UNK
Deactivated: 1933
Foundation Materials: BRICK
Construction Materials: BRICK/ASPHALT
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIFTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1856


WOOD ISLAND LIGHT

EAST SIDE WOOD ISLAND/SACO RIVER MOUTH
Station Established: 1808
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1858
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1986
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE RUBBLE
Tower Shape: CONICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1858