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Park Loop Road is a scenic road through part of Acadia National Park in Maine, United States. 27 miles (43 km) long, [1] it traverses the eastern side of Mount Desert Island in a (mostly) one-way, clockwise direction, from Bar Harbor to Seal Harbor.
Egg Rock. Egg Rock (sometimes called Elephant Rock) in Nahant Bay near Nahant, Massachusetts is a small (3-acre; 1.2 ha) island at It was formerly the site of a lighthouse known as Egg Rock Light but now is owned by the state of Massachusetts as a bird sanctuary. [1]
Egg Rock Light was first established in 1856 after a schooner went down with the loss of five lives. [1] The original structure was a lantern on top of a stone dwelling built from granite cut on the island.
Egg Rock Light. The Egg Rock light originally was fitted with a fifth-order Fresnel lens. The fog station (originally steam-powered) was added in 1904. The station was automated by the United States Coast Guard in 1976, at which time its ancillary structures except the fog station were torn down. The lantern house was removed and the light was ...
Egg Rock's location has attracted people since before historic times. Stone relics of Native Americans have been found around Egg Rock. [9]Henry David Thoreau beautifully described the gentle character of the three rivers (the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord rivers) near Concord, Massachusetts in his 1849 book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:
Egg Rock Light can refer to: Egg Rock Light (Maine) in Frenchman Bay; Egg Rock Light (Massachusetts) formerly in Nahant, Massachusetts This page was last edited on 28 ...
Eastern Egg Rock Island is an island in the Town of St. George in Knox County in the U.S. state of Maine. [1] It is owned by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) , and it is located off the southern Atlantic Coast of the state. [ 2 ]
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Massachusetts as identified by the United States Coast Guard.Enumeration of the lighthouses in this state is complicated by the number of multiple tower stations and replacement of older towers, with the Brant Point Light station having had nine towers, two of which survive. [1]