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Tenants Harbor
State: ME
Year established: 1857
Latitude: 43 deg 57
min 40 sec N
Longitude: 69 deg 11
min 5 sec W
Height above sea level: 65 feet Original construction:
27-foot brick tower and keeper's house on Southern Island
Status:
Decommissioned in 1933
Notes:
The tower and keeper's house were sold at auction to a private citizen. It was later purchased by the artist Andrew Wyeth and his wife, and since 1990 is the home of their son, Jamie Wyeth and his wife.
More information:
 http://lighthouse.cc/tenantsharbor/index.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/tenants.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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