The third of my three "Lighthouses in the Fog" lighthouses is in a familiar place -- the coastline of Maine. This lighthouse is the Seguin Island light, or light station, as it may be referred to.
As for this Web site, the Friends of the Seguin Island Light Station. The Web site has a nice short video, so to give them a little more traffic I'll let my readers decide to click that link and go there to see the video, or not.
So where is Seguin Island? It's out there. But not that far out there; it's offshore a bit from Popham Beach State Park, and just up the coast is Boothbay Harbor -- nice place, not as famous or as crowded as Bar Harbor.
Now let's do a bit of history and statistics.
History: George Washington approved this lighthouse in 1793, and commissioned it in 1795. A tower was built that year. The current 51-foot tower (some sources say 53 feet) was built in 1857. Read more history!
The current lighthouse has a Fresnel lens. Read about it right here.
See the pictures below. Because it has lots of support and visitors (not right now, but usually), there are lots of pictures.
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| You can see the lens. It's big. |
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