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Blue Hill Bay Light

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Location
  
Blue Hill Bay, Maine

Markings / pattern
  
Square Green Daymark

Fog signal
  
none

Range
  
9,260 m

Automated
  
1935

Tower shape
  
Skeleton Tower

Characteristic
  
Fl G 4s

Opened
  
1857

Focal height
  
7.62 m

Year first constructed
  
1857

Blue Hill Bay Light

Year first lit
  
1935 (current structure)

Similar
  
Eagle Island Light, Great Duck Island Light Station, Mount Desert Light Stati, Deer Island Thorofare Light, Franklin Island Light

Blue Hill Bay Light is a lighthouse on Green Island in Blue Hill Bay, Maine. It was first established in 1857. The present skeleton structure was built in 1935. It is also known as "Sand Island Light" or Eggemoggin Light".

The original 1857 structure still stands near the current light. It is a white cylindrical tower with an attached keeper's residence.

References

Blue Hill Bay Light Wikipedia


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