This lighthouse is located in Owls Head State Park, Owls Head, ME. This picturesque thirty feet high lighthouse sits atop the knob-like Owls Head which overlooks the south side of the entrance to Rockland Harbor. The beacon was originally installed atop a fieldstone tower built in 1825, but deteriorated badly within a few years after construction. The Light keeper Penley Haines complained in 1842. Some of what he wrote follows: "... (it) is in a state of extreme dilapidation and decay from top to bottom. The walls are crumbling to pieces, the windows and stair rotted out, and the lantern is leaky."
The current brick tower, built in 1852, stands in superior condition to the old one. The fourth order Fresnel lens shows a fixed white light from one-hundred feet above the water of Penobscot Bay. At the time of my visit in 1997, the tower and light station were maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard Service, and the former keeper's house was occupied by personnel attached to the service's Rockland base.
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