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The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Bass Harbor Head Light Station on January 21, 1988, reference number 87002273. [1] In 1902, an oil storage house constructed of brick was built 205 feet (62 m) northwest of the lighthouse. [2] Bass Harbor's fifth order Fresnel lens was
With its well-protected natural harbor, it ranks as one of the most lucrative lobster-producing ports in the state. Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse lies at the mouth of the harbor. The village is also the departure point for Maine State Ferry Service transport to Swans Island and Frenchboro. Bass Harbor was once known as McKinley.
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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]
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The Egg Rock Light Station consists of two buildings, a combination light tower and keeper's house, and a fog station building. The keeper's house is a roughly square 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame building, with a hip roof pierced by dormers on all four sides. The painted brick tower, 40 feet (12 m) high, rises through the center of the house. [5]
Hendricks Head Light is a lighthouse in Southport, Maine marking the west side of the mouth of the Sheepscot River. [2] [3] [4] The light station was established in 1829, and its present structures date to 1875. It was deactivated in 1933, but relit in 1951.
The Bristol Parks and Recreation Department owns and operates the outbuildings surrounding the lighthouse as Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park. The keeper's house is now the Fishermen's Museum at Pemaquid, [9] which contains displays and artifacts of the lighthouse and local maritime history. Opened in 2008, the Learning Center is a community ...