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Fort Point Light was established in 1836 in Stockton Springs, at the west side of the mouth of the Penobscot River, to aid vessels bound for Bangor, a leading lumber port. The town of Stockton Springs was also a lumber port and a shipping point for Maine's potato industry.

The lighthouse gets its name from adjacent Fort Pownall, built by order of Massachusetts Governor Pownall (Maine at that time was part of Massachusetts) in 1759 to guard against the French.

The present 31-foot square brick lighthouse was built in 1857. A new wood-frame two-story keeper's house, attached to the tower, was built the same year. In 1890, a bell tower and a barn were added, and an oil house was built in 1897. All of these buildings are still standing, making Fort Point Light an unusually well-preserved light station.

The lighthouse grounds are now part of Fort Point State Park. Since 1988, the resident "keepers" for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands have been Lawrence "Terry" Cole and Jeralyn Cole. Terry was the keeper at Fort Point Light back when he was in the Coast Guard in the early 1970s, and was thrilled to come back to the station. One of the Coles' daughters was married at the lighthouse.

The property is part of the Fort Point State Historic Site , (207) 941-4014.

The light and automatic fog signal remain active aids to navigation and are maintained by the Coast Guard.

The lighthouse's 1857 Fresnel lens remains in use.

source: <a href="http://www.lighthouse.cc/fortpoint/history.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.lighthouse.cc/fortpoint/history.html</a>
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