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Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse
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Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Cape Elizabeth
Lighthouse
Maine
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Year Built:
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1874
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Height of Tower:
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67 feet
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Description:
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White
cast-iron, conical tower showing |
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a group of
four white flashes (first flash - 0.3 seconds flash…2.2 seconds
eclipsed, second flash – 0.3 second flash…2.2 seconds eclipsed, third
flash – 0.3 second flash…2.2 seconds eclipsed and fourth flash – 0.3
second flash…eclipsed 7.2 seconds) every 15 seconds that is visible 15
nautical miles from a focal plane of 129 feet above sea level. The
light station is equipped with a fog horn that is 266 yards from the
tower, which sounds |
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two blasts
every 60 seconds. – Reference: 2005 U.S. Coast Guard
Light List
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Location:
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South of
entrance to Portland Harbor. - Reference: 1939 U.S. Lighthouse Service
Light List
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Coordinates:
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43 34 00 N…70
12 00 W
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Automated:
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1963
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Status:
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Active aid to
navigation owned by the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed to the American
Lighthouse Foundation
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Light Station
Historical Notes:
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The first pair
of lights established at Cape Elizabeth were constructed of rubblestone
and stood 65-feet tall. The lights also serve as a range for mariners
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entering Portland Harbor and possess the distinction of being the first
“twin” lighthouses built on the coast of Maine. The lighthouses received
Fresnel lenses for the first time in 1855. By 1874 the U.S. Lighthouse
Service decided to replace the original towers with two new 67-foot cast- |
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iron towers situated 300 yards apart. Each light was
outfitted with second order Fresnel lenses. The west tower was
permanently discontinued in 1924. The second order Fresnel lens in the
east tower was removed in 1994 and was placed on display at the Cape
Elizabeth Town Hall.
– (Information courtesy of ALF Historian Jeremy
D'Entremont)
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U.S. Coast Guard Photo
Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse
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To learn more about Cape
Elizabeth Lighthouse and how you can help the American Lighthouse Foundation save this
historic beacon
click
here!
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Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse
History...
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Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse
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