Bass Harbor Head Ellsworth (1858) This light is located on Mount Desert Island in Maine. It marks the Bass Harbor bar which stretches across the eastern entrance to Blue Hill Bay and Bass Harbor. Also located near the light is a brick bell house, a brick oil house and a barn.
	Burnt Island Boothbay Harbor (1821) Flashing red 6s (2 white sectors). Height above water 61 ft. The tower is 30 feet tall and constructed of fieldstone and brick. Because of this light's proxmity to The Cuckhold's beacon, Burnt Island's beacon light has been changed from a fixed white light to a dark sector light in 1888, to a fixed red light in 1890, and in 1892 it was changed to a flashing red light. In 1992 the US Coast Guard decided that the station was too expensive to maintain. Its future is unknown at the present time.
	Burnt Coat Harbor Swan's Island (1872) The harbor's first navigational aids were two range lights that were on separate wooden towers. There were alot of complaints from ship captains that this arrangement was confusing and the Lighthouse Board removed the front range light The present square brick tower is near the site of the rear range light, located on the southwest tip of Swan's Island. It can be reached by taking the Swan's Island Ferry from Bass Harbor on Mount Desert Island. In 1994 the Coast Guard turned the property over to the Town of Swans Island, and eventually it will be part of a public park. The lighthouse is also known as the Hockamonk Head Light. This image also appears at Karin Borei's Swan Island webpage.
	Cuckholds Boothbay Harbor (1892, 1907) Group flashing white 6s. Height avove water 59 ft. This station was originally used as a fog signal location in 1892. Its white octagonal tower was added to the signal house in 1907. The island that it sits on is very small and wave-swept - the island has no soil at all. This marks the entrance to the very busy Boothbay Harbor
	Curtis Island Camden (1836, 1896) The light station, with a fixed green light, was first constructed in 1836. It fell into disrepair and was rebuilt in 1896, with the keeper's house, engine house and tool shed added at that time. The station was automated in by 1972 and the property deeded to the Town of Camden. The station is on the south side of five acre Curtis Island and is a municipal park, but there is no public transportation to the island.
	Cape Elizabeth ("Two Lights") Portland (1829, 1874) Group flashing white 30s. Height above water 129 ft. This white conical tower stands just south of the entrance to Portland Harbor (Maine). It was originally called two lights since two stone towers were built 300 yards apart at this site in 1829. In 1924 the twin lights were discontinued. Both structures are found at this site, as of 1987, although the light of the western tower was removed.
	Cape Neddick York (1879) Equal interval red 6s. Height above sea level 88 ft. This lighthouse stands on Nubble Island, and is often referred to as "Nubble Light." The 41 foot tower has a cast-iron sheathing with an inner double layer of brick. "The Nubble," along with Portland Head Light, is one of the most photographed and painted lighthouses in America. Voyager, launched in 1977, carries images of natural and man-made Earth objects, among them the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall of China, and little ol' Nubble Light.
	Deer Island Thorofare Mark Island (1857) This lighthouse is also known as the Mark Island Lighthouse. It has a white square tower and is located on the west side of Mark Island in Maine. It can be viewed from the mainland from Stonington, ME.
	Dice Head (old) Castine (1829,1858) It is located in the village of Castine, ME. The octagonal tower is composed of granite rubble stone lined with brick. In 1858 the tower was remodeled into an octagonal shape by encasing it within a clapboard-sheathed wooden frame. Twenty years later the wooden exterior was removed. The light was deactivated in 1935 and was deeded to the Town of Castine in the mid-1950s. The current light operates from a skeleton tower on the north side of the entrance to Castine Harbor.
	Dice Head (new) Castine
	Doubling Point Bath (1989) Front continuous quick flashing white, rear equal interval white 6s. Height above water 18 ft in the front, 33 ft in the rear. This light is on Arrowsic Island on the Kennebec River in Main, one of four lighthouses built that year to provide navigational aid for ships on their way to Bath. Bath was a major naval shipyard. Friends of Doubling Point are trying to save this lighthouse.
	Eagle Island in East Penobscot Bay (1839, 1858) This light sits on 260 Eagle Island where the keepers did not have running water or indoor plumbing until the early 1940's. The light was automated in 1959. The Coast Guard burned down the keeper's house and demolished or removed all other structures and equiment four years later. All that remains is the light and bell towers.
	Egg Rock Egg Rock, near Mount Desert Island (1875, 1899) Flashing red 5s. Height above sea level 64 ft. This 40 foot tall lighthouse was built with the tower on the roof of the keeper's house. It was automated in 1976 and at that time the United States Coast Guard tore down all structures except for the fog signal building and the lighthouse. Instead of the 4th-order Fresnel lens, back-to-back aerobeacons were left on the tower's stump. In 1986 the USCG refitted the tower with an octagonal aluminum lantern and railing at the urging of the public.
	Fort Point Stockton Springs (1837, 1857) Fort Point is named for Fort Pownall after Massachusetts Governor Pownall, who built a fort n 1759. The light was automated in 1988 and now sits in Fort Point State Park.

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