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| Egg Rock Light (ME) |
 Jeremy D'Entremont |
| Nearest Town or City: | Winter Harbor Maine United States |
| Location: | At the entrance to Frenchmans Bay. |
| Managing Organization: | Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge |
| Website: | http://www.fws.gov/northeast/mainecoasta l/ |
| Notes: | The Coast Guard removed the lantern in 1980; a replica aluminum lantern was installed in 1986. |
| Tower Height: | 40 |
| Description Tower: | Square white brick tower on roof of keeper's dwelling; black aluminum lantern. |
| Operational: | Yes |
| Date Established: | 1875 |
| Date Present Tower Built: | 1875 |
| Current Use: | Active aid to navigation. |
| Open To Public: | No, |
| Directions: | From Route 1 take ME 3 to the entrance to Acadia National Park. Follow the 20 mile Loop Road through the park. Egg Rock Light can be seen offshore from three vantage points: The Champlain Mountain Overlook, The Precipice, and the Scenic Overlook. The lighthouse can also be seen from a number of sightseeing cruises and whale watches leaving Bar Harbor. These include the Atlantis Whale Watcher at 1 West Street; call (800) 508-1499 for information. The Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. offers whale watches and nature cruises; call (207) 288-2386. Check at the Acadia National Park visitor center at the park entrance for more cruise information. Map It! |
| Characteristic Range: | Flashing red every five seconds. |
| Other Buildings: | 1875 integral 1.5 story wood keeper's quarters, 1904 brick fog signal building, oil house, boathouse, generator house. |
| Date Automated: | 1976 |
| Optics: | 1875: Fifth order Fresnel lens; 1902: Fourth order Fresnel lens; 1980: rotating aerobeacons; 1986: 190 mm. Now VRB-25. |
| Height Focal Plane: | 64 |
| National Register: | Yes |
| Keepers: | Ambrose H. Wasgatt (1875-1885); Amaziah R. Small (1885-1889); Lewis F. Sawyer (1889-1899); Heber G. Sawyer (1899-1905); Stephen F. Flood (assistant c. 1905); Augustus B. Hamor (1913-c.1930); Jules Benjamin Pinkham (c. 1930s); Clinton (Buster) Dalzell (assistant c. 1935, drowned on duty); Linwood Gammon (Coast Guard, c. 1946); Daniel Buckley (c. 1950); ? Wilson (c. 1950); Robert Camp (c. 1950); Arthur L. Wollschlager (Coast Guard, 1954-1957); Thomas Collins (Coast Guard, c. 1967) |
| Telephone: | 2075462124 |
| Contact Address: | P.O. Box 279 |
| City: | Milbridge |
| State: | Maine |
| Postal Code: | 04658 |
| Country: | United States |
| Signal: | 1875: Fog bell and striking apparatus in bell tower; 1887: New skeletal fog bell tower; 1904: compressed air fog horn; now automated fog horn. |
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