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It was warm last evening and I went early to my Portland Camera Club Meeting to take some photos of this lighthouse. In the foreground is the piled stone breakwater. It is adjacent to what remains of Fort Preble and its wall is the right border. Taken from the same spot as yesterdays but with a wide angle lens pointed toward Casco Bay. It had been raining most of the day but was clearing when I got here. A few clouds in the sky but I managed to catch a few stars. Spring Point Ledge Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in South Portland, Maine that marks a dangerous obstruction on the west side of the main shipping channel into Portland Harbor. It is now adjacent to the campus of Southern Maine Community College. The lighthouse was constructed in 1897 by the government after seven steamship companies stated that many of their vessels ran aground on Spring Point Ledge. Congress initially allocated $20,000 to its construction, although the total cost of the tower ended up being $45,000 due to problems with storms and poor quality cement. The lighthouse featured a fog bell that sounded twice every 12 seconds, and a lantern fitted with a fifth order Fresnel lens first lit by Keeper William A. Lane on May 24, 1897. Improvements were made to the lighthouse throughout the 20th century. It was electrified in 1934, and in 1951, a 900-foot breakwater made from 50,000 short tons (45,000 t) of granite was constructed in order to connect the lighthouse to the mainland. The lighthouse was originally owned and operated by the United States Coast Guard. However, on April 28, 1998, the Maine Lights Selection Committee approved a transfer of ownership of the tower to the Spring Point Ledge Light Trust, with the USCG retaining only the light and fog signal. (Wikipedia) |
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| Author | Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA |
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