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Cape Elizabeth
State: ME
Year established: 1828
Latitude: 43 deg 33
min 57 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 12
min 0 sec W
Height above sea level: 129 feet Original construction:
Two 65-foot rubblestone towers Rebuilds:
 1874: two 67-foot cast iron towers
1924: west light decommissioned (all twin light stations were converted to a single light); the east light was electrified. The first card appears to show 2 lights in use; the second only the east light in use
Status:
Automated in 1963; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
4 white flashes every 15 seconds, visible for 15 nautical miles; fog signal, 2 blasts every 60 seconds
Notes:
The Cape Elizabeth Lights were the first two-light station built on the Maine coast to serve as range lights marking the entrance to Portland Harbor and Casco Bay.
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/capeelizabeth/index.html
http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/cape_eliz.html
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), pp. 88, 90
Holland Jr., F. Ross, Great American Lighthouses, National Historic Trust Guide, (Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1989), p. 90
Roberts, B., & Jones, R., American Lighthouses; A Comprehensive Guide, (Old Saybrook, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1998), p. 52
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