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  • Structures✖
  • Transportation
  • Lighthouse
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  • Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-14221
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
...Coast Guard has announced it will demolish the unmanned lighthouse which has stood on the breakwater at the entrance to Rockland Harbor since the beginning...The above photo was taken in 1904 when Captain Clifford Robbins of Southwest Harbor was the keeper...The 4300-foot breakwater, which protects Rockland Harbor from easterly storms, was eighteen years under construction and required 732,227 tons of stone...Lovering Robbins both died in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1967. Clifford's father, Howard P. Robbins was also a lighthouse keeper there. “Howard P...