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Halfway Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on a barren ledge in Casco Bay, Maine. [5] The lighthouse tower, which has a height of 76 feet (23 m), and the attached ex-boathouse are all that remains, as the other buildings have been taken away in storms.
The Portland Head Light, first lit in 1791, is the oldest light in the state and was the first US lighthouse completed after independence from Britain. [2] [3] The last lighthouse in the state, the second Whitlocks Mill Light, was first lit in 1910; it is also the most northerly light in the state and therefore on the US Atlantic Coast. [4]
Work began that year with a temporary shelter erected for workers, given the site's distance from the mainland at the outer edge of Casco Bay. The lighthouse was built primarily from granite quarried on Chebeague Island and hewn into shape on House Island. On August 15, 1871, Halfway Rock Lighthouse began service, with a foghorn added in 1887 ...
Sep. 9—SOUTH PORTLAND — Becky Armstrong, who lives full time in an RV and hails from Florida, drove from Washington, D.C., to see a Maine lighthouse on Saturday. Her tour on Maine Open ...
Nearly a dozen visitors were injured after a platform leading to a historic Maine lighthouse collapsed Saturday, during the state's annual event to encourage tourism to lighthouses.
The lighthouse was open to the public as part of Maine Open Lighthouse Day, which is a day when the state's scenic lighthouses are open to the public. Five of the 11 injured people were taken to ...
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. ... When Halfway Rock Light was built, Portland Head Light was considered less important, and ...
Matinicus Rock Light is a lighthouse on Matinicus Rock, a windswept rock 25 miles (40 km) off the coast of Maine. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is one of eleven seacoast lights off the coast of Maine. [ 2 ] First established in 1827, the present surviving structures date to 1857.