Maine - Marshall Point Lighthouse

The Marshall Point Lighthouse is located at Port Clyde, ME. The light stands at the southern tip of the Port Clyde peninsula and marks the east side of the entrance to Port Clyde Harbor. The station was established in 1832, following the construction of a nineteen foot rubble tower and an attached keeper's dwelling. However, in 1857 the original lighthouse, due to using the wrong kind of mortar to hold the field-stones in place, had to be taken down before it collapsed. Its replacement was this thirty-one feet, slightly taller, cylindrical structure located at the water's edge. The base of the tower was made of granite blocks, and the upper half made of brick. (This is more visible if you enlarge the picture by clicking on it). The tower was then connected to the shore via a wooden walkway supported by granite footings. At the time of my visit in 1997, the fixed white light shined from twenty-nine-and-a-half feet above the sea

The Marshall Point light station was automated in 1971, then nine years later the old keeper's quarters were boarded up and abandoned. However, in 1987 the St George Historical Society assumed responsibility for overseeing the building's restoration, and in 1990 the group opened the lower portion as the Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum.