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The breakwater extends south from Jameson Point (marking the northern point of the harbor mouth), and has a total length of 4,364 feet (1,330 m). It is built out of locally quarried granite, and has a roughly trapezoidal cross-section, its seaward face sloping more gradually than the harbor side, in order to better take the battering of sea ...
The Breakwater is a two-story wood-frame structure, set at the southern end of the narrow peninsula projecting south from Mount Kineo into Moosehead Lake, Maine's largest lake. The main block is set on stone piers and topped by a shingled hip roof, with a side ell of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories that is gambrel-roofed. The primary facade faces the lake ...
The first light marking the harbor's northern point was an oil lamp placed in 1827 on a wooden tripod on Jameson Point. When the work was begun on the breakwater in 1881, the pole was relocated as the breakwater was extended SSE into the harbor. The breakwater was completed in 1899 and the present light and keepers' structure was finished in 1902.
Center for Maine Contemporary Art [22] Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education [23] Maine Lighthouse Museum [24] Maine Eastern Railroad [25] Maine Lobster Festival [26] North Atlantic Blues Festival [27] Rockland Breakwater Light [28] Rockland Historical Society and Museum [29] Maine Boats, Homes, and Harbors Show [30] University College ...
A Maine woman enjoying a walk on a popular beach learned that quicksand doesn't just happen in Hollywood movies in jungles or rainforests. Jamie Acord was walking at the water's edge at Popham ...
Hills Beach is a seaside community in Biddeford, York County, Maine, United States, approximately 85 miles (140 km) north of Boston, Massachusetts. Hills Beach is a narrow stretch of sandy beach on the north side of Biddeford Pool [1] near the mouth of the Saco River and near the Saco Bay. The beach is protected by a breakwater on the north ...
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A park named after the lighthouse, Bug Light Park, allows visitors to view the Portland Breakwater Light up close, while memorializing the shipbuilding efforts of World War II. [4] The light was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Portland Breakwater Light on June 19, 1973, reference number 73000238.