As noted last week, I'm featuring a few lighthouses from the state of Maine that I hadn't noticed before. This week's choice is one of the lighthouses somewhat near Rockland. It's actually called the Whitehead Light Station.
It has it's own website: Whitehead Light Station
And other pages: Whitehead Lighthouse (New England Lighthouses)
Whitehead Lighthouse (Lighthouse Friends)
Here is where it is located.
And the Lighthouse Directory tells us this about it:
"1852 (station established 1804). Active; focal plane 75 ft (23 m); green light occulting every 4 s, day and night. 41 ft (12.5 m) unpainted round granite tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a red brick service room; 300 mm lens (1982). Fog horn (2 blasts every 30 s). The original 3rd order Fresnel lens is on display at the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland. 1-1/2 story wood assistant keeper's house (1891); the principal keeper's house has been demolished. Square brick fog signal building (1888), oil house (1891), boathouse, and other light station buildings.
The original lighthouse, a wood tower, was replaced by a stone tower in 1830. Transferred under the Maine Lights program in 1998, this light station became part of a summer camp for high schoolers, who helped restore the historic buildings. Starting in August 2008 the keeper's house has been used for educational programs for adults."
The pictures are below.
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