Blue Hill Bay Light

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Blue Hill Bay is a privately owned befindlicher, no longer operated lighthouse in the U.S. state of Maine.

Location

The lighthouse is located on Green Iceland, one at high tide only about 3000 m² large island belonging to the group of Flye Islands - is expected - in some sources also called Fly Islands. The rocky island has no greater elevation, the lighthouse is located in the western part of the island belonging to the town of Brooklin.

The name was given the navaid due to its location at the southern end of the Blue Hill Bay, the connection to the Penobscot Bay on the Eggemoggin Reach and Jericho Bay on the Pond Iceland passage going off in the vicinity of the lighthouse.

History

The need to control vessel traffic in this area stemmed from the growing importance of the timber trade in Ellsworth, one located on Union River port city. The island was sold in 1855 by Abraham Flye for 150 U.S. dollars to the federal government, which by the year 1857, a lighthouse was then build on it. The fourth-order Fresnel lens installed radiate from constant white light. In 1900 the plant was supplemented by a fog bell, together with associated machinery.

From 1905, the complex was next to the lighthouse from the means of a built of brick, roofed passage connected, built in the colonial style wooden house of the lighthouse keeper, a barn, a boat house, the tower for the fog bell, an outdoor toilet and an oil reservoir. The storage of water was a cistern, which was responsible for the recording of 1050 gallons ( approx. 3975 liters) of rainwater designed in the basement of the house the lighthouse keeper. At no time of operation there was on the island of running water, electricity or telephone, the communication was based on agreed- sign with coastal buildings on the mainland.

In 1933 the operation of the U.S. Coast Guard has been discontinued and replaced by an automatically operated steel skeleton tower in the south of the island, the lighthouse including its outbuildings was sold. Currently, the island is owned by the Mandix family.

Lighthouse keeper

Tourism

Access to the island is not possible, organized boat trips do not touch the area also. The best view without renting a boat can be enjoyed from the Naskeag Point Road in Brooklin.

Trivia

In the 1920s, two cows were kept on the island, the lighthouse keeper Roscoe Chandler was suffering from stomach ulcers and had to rely on fresh milk.