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Managing Organization:
American Lighthouse Foundation
Telephone: 207-646-0245
Website: http://www.lighthousefoundation.org/alf_lights/littleriver/lr_info.htm
Contact Address Information:
P.O. Box 889
Wells
Maine, 04090, United States
Notes:
In 1980, the lens was removed from this lighthouse and an automated optic was installed on a skeleton tower nearby. The American Lighthouse Foundation (ALF) received a lease on Little River Light in early 2000, and the light was returned to the lighthouse on October 2, 2001. The keeper's house is being restored by ALF. The station became the property of ALF in 2002 under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.
Tower Height: 41
Height of Focal Plane: 56
Characteristic and Range: Flashing white every six seconds.
Description of Tower: White, conical cast iron tower with green cast iron lantern.
Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1888 two story wood L-shaped Victorian keeper's house; 1905 stone oil house, 1881 wood boathouse.
Earlier Towers?
1847: Stone tower attached to stone keeper's house.
Date Established: 1847
Date Present Tower Built: 1876
Date Deactivated: 1980-2001
Date Automated: 1975
Optics: 1855: Fifth order Fresnel lens; 1980 (skeleton tower): 300 mm. 2001: VRB-25
Fog Signal: Formerly bell and striking machinery in pyramidal wood bell tower; now automated fog horn with one blast every 10 seconds.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
You can see Little River Light from Captain Andrew Patterson's puffin watching cruise from Cutler to Machias Seal Island (home to a Canadian lighthouse). You can get more information on these cruises by calling Captain Patterson at (207) 259-4484 or emailing him at info@boldcoast.com. Also, Ed Payson writes: "The Western Head Trail, located on the south side of the harbor, offers many good views of the light, as well as Machias Seal Island Light and Southwestern Head Light on Grand Manan. A couple of miles over rough terrain, this trail offers really nice views of the three lights on a clear day. Little River is close; the other two are in the distance."
Mapquest URL: Click here to get a map to this lighthouse!
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: Elijah Shiverick (1848-1853); John McGuire (1853-1865); Oliver Ackley (1865-1866); Edward Noyes (1866-1870); Lucius Davis (1870-1896); Roscoe G. Johnson (1896-1898); Fred W. Morong (1898-1910); Charles A. Kenney (1912-c. 1921); Willie W. Corbett (1921-1939) Coast Guard: BMC Russell W. Reilly (c. 1958-1960 and c. 1971?); David Hardman (1958-1960); EN2 William Clow (c. late 1950s); BM3 George Joy (c. late 1950s and 4/27/69 - 4/7/71); BM1 Robert Marston (c. late 1950s and ?-March 1972); Chuck Shipp (c. 1958); Burley Chandler (1964 to 3/16/1967); BMCP Bruce G. Keene (1/3/1966 - 3/17/1967); Petty Officer Ronald E. Sullivan (3/17/1967 - 4/27/1969); Terry Rowden (1968-1970); BM3 Albert Vachon (March 1972 - January 1973); John A. Arrington - (Officer in Charge March 1972 - March 1973); BM3 Anthony W. Weyer (c. Jan. 1973
Nearby Lodging: Bluebird Motel, U.S. Route 1, Box 45, Machias, ME 04654. Phone (207) 255-3332.
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