white light
every 6 seconds from a focal plane of 79 feet above sea level that is
visible 14 nautical miles.
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Reference: 2005 U.S. Coast Guard Light List
Location:
On west side of entrance to Muscongus
Bay. - Reference: 1939 U.S. Lighthouse Service
Light List
Coordinates:
43 50 12 N…69
30 21 W
Automated:
1934
Status:
Active aid to
navigation owned by the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed to the American
Lighthouse Foundation. The Friends of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse – a
chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation, is dedicated to restoring
the historic lighthouse.
Light Station
Historical Notes:
The first
lighthouse at Pemaquid Point was constructed in 1827. Eight years later,
the poor construction of the original tower necessitated that a
new tower be built at the station, which was completed in 1835. Pemaquid
Point Light received its first Fresnel lens – a fourth order, in 1856. The
U.S.
Lighthouse Service constructed a fog bell house and tower
in 1897, but by 1930 the bell was removed from the light station. The
lighthouse has the distinction of being the first sentinel in Maine to
be automated when its keeper was permanently removed in 1934.
– (Information courtesy of ALF Historian Jeremy
D'Entremont)
To learn more about Pemaquid
Point
Lighthouse and how you can help the Friends of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, a
chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation save this
historic beacon click
here!
