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You searched for: 'bar harbor'✖Contributor: Southwest Harbor Public Library✖Place: Bear Island✖Subject: Structures✖Subject: Lighthouse✖Type: Reference✖
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Bear Island Light Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Bear Island Light Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Bear Island Light is located on the west end of Bear Island. It was originally established in 1839. The current structure dates to 1889. The Light was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. File Attachment: Bear Island Light.pdf …1989 "For a time beginning in 1887, Bear Island had a buoy depot where navigational aids were maintained; the depot was later transferred to Southwest Harbor …The keeper merely lights the light at sunset each night and, barring the fact that the burner becomes carbonned up, it operates automatically until shut …The government has purchased the steamboat wharf at Southwest Harbor and the buoy depot is being transferred to that place." - Traditions and Records …of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. |