Indian Island
State: ME
Year established: 1850
Latitude: 44 deg 9
min 55 sec N
Longitude: 69 deg 3
min 39 sec W
Height above sea level: 53 feet Original construction:
lantern mounted on roof of keeper's house Rebuilds:
1859: decommissioned
1875: reactivated, present 31-foot high square white tower
Status:
Decommissioned in 1934, replaced by automated light on nearby Lowell Rock
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/indianisland/index.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/indian.htm
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. 22-23

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