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词条 Fort Point Light (Maine)
释义

  1. Setting

  2. Description

  3. History

  4. See also

  5. References

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| name = Fort Point Light
| image_name = Fort_point_light_station.jpg
| caption = Fort Point Light in September, 2005.
| location = Penobscot River Entrance
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| coordinates_footnotes =
| yearbuilt = 1836
| yearlit = 1857 (current structure)
| automated = 1988
| yeardeactivated =
| foundation =
| construction =
| shape = Square Brick Tower
| marking = White
| height =
| focalheight = {{convert|88|ft}}
| lens = 4th order Fresnel Lens
| currentlens = Original
| intensity =
| range = {{convert|15|nmi}}
| characteristic = F W
| fogsignal =HORN: 1 every 10s
| USCG = 1-3580[1][2]
|module= {{Infobox NRHP
| name = Fort Point Light Station
| embed = yes
| nrhp_type = hd
| nocat = yes
| image =
| caption =
| nearest_city = Stockton Springs, Maine
| area =
| built = 1857
| architect = US Army Corps of Engineers
| architecture =
| added = March 23, 1988
| mpsub = Light Stations of Maine MPS
| refnum = 87002269[3]
}}

The Fort Point Light, or Fort Point Light Station, is located in Fort Point State Park, in Stockton Springs, Maine. A lighthouse at this point has served as an active aid to navigation since 1835; the present lighthouse dates to 1857, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]

Setting

{{further|Fort Point State Park}}

Fort Point State Park is located at the easternmost tip of Cape Jellison, a triangular peninsula which juts into Penobscot Bay at the mouth of the Penobscot River. The {{convert|120|acre|ha|adj=on}} park, established in 1974, includes, in addition to the lighthouse and related station buildings, the ruins of Fort Pownall, built in 1757.[4] The lighthouse is set just southwest of the easternmost point of the peninsula, and south of the fort's remains.

Description

The light station consists of a lighthouse with integrated keeper's house, a barn, an oil house, and a bell house. The square brick lighthouse tower is {{convert|26|ft|m}} in height (measured to the height of the lantern), with a square parapet surrounding the octagonal lantern house. The lantern house is capped by an octagonal roof with a spherical ventilator. A narrow single-story brick work room connects the tower to the keeper's house, a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with its main gable oriented north-south. Its main facade, facing west, is three bays wide, with the entrance set in the rightmost bay in an enclosed projecting gabled vestibule. A single story ell projects to the building's rear.[5]

Just east of the house stands a small barn, that is known to have been standing here since the 1890s. Also standing to the west is the small brick oilhouse, with a single door in one side, and pent gable ends on its roof. Further to the east stands the bell house, a roughly pyramidal wood frame structure finished in wooden shingles. The oil house was built in 1897, the bell house in 1890.[5]

History

The Fort Point Light Station was authorized by Congress in 1834, and built on land purchased from William Clewley, the first keeper. It was the first river light in Maine, built at a time when traffic on the bay and river were increasing. The present tower and keeper's house were built in 1857 as a replacement for the first lighthouse. The original lamp was replaced in 1935, and electrified in 1950. It was automated in 1988 and remains an active aid to navigation.

The light's fourth order fresnel lens is one of only eight fresnel lenses still in use in Maine.[6] The original fog signal, a {{convert|1200|lb|sing=on}} cast iron bell, has been replaced by a fog horn in the same building.[2][4] The lighthouse was leased to the state by the United States Coast Guard in 1989, and sold to it in 1998.

{{Gallery|mode=packed
|File:Fort point light station bell tower.jpg|Fog signal tower in September, 2005
|File:Fort point light station bell.jpg|Fog signal bell
}}

See also

  • List of lighthouses in Maine
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Waldo County, Maine

References

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1. ^{{cite uscghist|ME|date=2009-08-17}}
2. ^{{cite uscgll|1|2009|31}}
3. ^{{NRISref|2007a}}
4. ^{{cite web | title = Fort Point State Historic Site | publisher = State of Maine, Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks & Land | url = http://www.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/doc/parksearch/index.pl?search_radio=1&state_park=33&historic_site=&public_reserved_land=&shared_use_trails=&town=&distance=&submit=Go+%BB | accessdate = 2014-09-22 }}
5. ^{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=87002269}}|title=NRHP nomination for Fort Point Light Station|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2015-09-22}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/docs/CG_Classical_Lens_in_Operation.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090325232007/http://www.uscg.mil/history/docs/CG_Classical_Lens_in_Operation.pdf |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2009-03-25 |date=2009-08-06 |title=Classical Lenses in Operation |publisher=US Coast Guard |df= }}
{{Lighthouses of Maine}}{{National Register of Historic Places}}

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