Owls Head Light

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Owls Head Light
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Owls Head Light is located in Maine
Owls Head Light
Owls Head Light
Location Owls Head, Maine
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[1]
Year first constructed 1826
Year first lit 1826
Automated 1989
Foundation Granite
Construction Brick
Tower shape Cylindrical
Markings / pattern White with black lantern
Focal height 100 feet (30 m)
Current lens 4th order Fresnel lens[2]
Range 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi)
Characteristic Fixed white
Fog signal Horn: 2 every 20s
Admiralty number J0104
ARLHS number USA-574
USCG number 1-4105[3][4][5]
Owls Head Light Station
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Nearest city Owls Head, Maine
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built by Jeremiah Berry; Green & Foster
NRHP Reference # 78000183[6]
Added to NRHP January 18, 1978

The Owls Head Light is an active aid to navigation located at the entrance of Rockland Harbor on western Penobscot Bay in the town of Owls Head, Knox County, Maine. The lighthouse is owned by the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed to the American Lighthouse Foundation.[7] It is the centerpiece of 13-acre (5.3 ha) Owls Head State Park[8] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Owls Head Light Station in 1978.[9]

History

The town of Owls Head is located south of Rockland, and includes an eponymous peninsula that projects northeast into Penobscot Bay, with its tip roughly east of downtown Rockland. The light station is located at the eastern tip of this peninsula. The light station house was established in 1826 with the construction of a round, rubblestone tower by Jeremiah Berry and Green & Foster.[9] The tower was rebuilt in 1852.[10] It is a 30-foot-tall (9.1 m) cylindrical brick tower on a granite foundation standing on top a cliff. It has one of the last six Fresnel lenses in operation in Maine.[2] The light is located 100 feet (30 m) above mean sea level.[11]

In 1854, a keeper's house was built separate from the lighthouse. The cottage now serves as Coast Guard housing. A fourth order Fresnel lens was installed in 1856. A generator house and an oil storage building were added in 1895.

Renovations carried out in 2010 saw the tower restored to its 1852 appearance. In addition to repainting the tower, repairs were done to the bricks, the lantern’s ironwork and windowpanes, and the parapet’s floor.[10]

Gallery

  • Owl'sHead.jpg

    The hill where the tower sits.

  • Owls Head Light View.JPG

    The view from the base of the tower.

See also

References

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