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Managing Organization:
Squirrel Point Associates, Inc.
Notes:
A group called Citizens for Squirrel Point (CSP) has formed to ensure that Squirrel Point Light is used and maintained for the public benefit. To learn more, email Lee Johnson at leej@clinic.net
Tower Height: 25
Height of Focal Plane: 33
Characteristic and Range: Alternating six seconds red and six seconds darkness, with a white sector.
Description of Tower: Octagonal white wood tower with black cast iron lantern.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1898 1.5 story wood keeper's house, 1902 fog signal building (attached to tower), 1906 oil house, 1898 barn, garage, boathouse.
Date Established: 1898
Date Present Tower Built: 1898
Date Automated: 1979
Optics: 1898: Fifth order Fresnel lens; now 250 mm. The original Fresnel lens is now at the Museum at Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Fog Signal: Now automated fog horn with one blast every 10 seconds.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? Grounds only.
Directions:
From US Route 1 in Bath, take ME 209 south for six miles. Turn left on Parker Head Road in Phippsburg. After 0.3 mile the lighthouse is visible across the river. Closer views are possible from a number of the lighthouse cruises offered by the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. Call (207) 443-1316 for information and reservations. You can also view it from the Kennebec River - Bath cruise offered by Cap'n Fish's Whale Watch and Scenic Nature Cruises in Boothbay Harbor; for information call (207) 633-3244 or (800) 636-3244.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: George Matthews (1898-1912), Arthur V. Smith (?), ? Reynolds (?), Clarence Skolfield (1955-1956), Charles Burns (1970-1972), Joseph Robicheau (Coast Guard, May 1980 - November 1981)
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