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Goat Island
State: ME
Year established: 1834
Latitude: 43 deg 21
min 28 sec N
Longitude: 70 deg 25
min 30 sec W
Height above sea level: 38 feet Original construction:
20-foot stone tower Rebuilds:
 1859-60: tower and house rebuilt
1880s: present 25-foot brick tower
Status:
Automated in 1990; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
Flashing white every 6 seconds, visible for 12 nautical miles; fog signal is one blast every 15 seconds
Notes:
A proposal to automate the Goat Island Light in 1976 was postponed due to the local view that a keeper was needed to prevent vandalism. In 1990, it was the next-to-last Maine light to be automated.
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/goat/index.html
http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/goat.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHME.html
Office of the Light House Board, List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895), pp. 26-27
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