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Baker Island
State: ME
Year established: 1828
Latitude: 44 deg 14
min 28 sec N
Longitude: 68 deg 11
min 56 sec W
Height above sea level: 105 feet Original construction:
Wood tower Rebuilds:
 1855: 43-foot brick tower
Status:
Automated in 1966; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
White flash every 10 seconds, visible from 10 nautical miles
Notes:
The Baker Island Light was the subject of an extensive legal battle between the island owners and the U.S. as to land ownership. "The government won the right to 19 acres for the lighthouse and the necessary right-of-way", while the family retained the remainder of the 123-acre island.
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/baker/index.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/park/bakerisl.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHME.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), p. 91
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), p. 80-81
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