This week's lighthouse is a movie star, and it even has a Webcam. We're back to Maine, this time in a relatively accessible location.
This is the Marshall Point Lighthouse, and when you read on, you'll see why it's a movie star, if you don't know already. To mix things up, I'll put the video first.
Info from the Lighthouse Directory:
"1857 (station established 1832). Active; focal plane 30 ft (9 m), continuous white light, day and night. 31 ft (9.5 m) round tower with lantern and gallery, lower part granite blocks and upper part brick, connected to land by a wooden walkway; 300 mm lens (1981). Upper part of tower and walkway painted white, lantern and gallery black. Fog horn (blast every 10 s) on demand. 1-1/2 story wood keeper's house (1895); the lower floor houses the Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum, and the upper floor is a caretaker's residence.
The restoration effort began in 1986 when the Town of St. George leased the station from the Coast Guard. The St. George Historical Society restored the tower and keeper's house in 1988-89 and opened the museum in 1990. The lighthouse gained some notoriety when it appeared in the 1993 movie Forrest Gump as the eastern end of Gump's cross-country run.
The 5th order drum-style Fresnel lens removed from the lighthouse in 1971 was displayed for years at the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockport but has returned for display at the museum in 2020; also on display is the 300 mm lens used from 1971 to 2016."
Some links:
The pictures (note that there are many, several high quality artistic types, and paintings, etc., on the web):
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