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Description
The first Goat Island lighthouse was built in 1833 to protect vessels from going aground around the shallow areas around Cape Porpoise harbor.
This was the last lighthouse in Maine to become automated in 1990.
About This Item
- Title: Goat Island Light, Kennebunkport, ca. 1940
- Creation Date: circa 1940
- Subject Date: circa 1940
- Location: Cape Porpoise, Kennebunkport, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 8.5 cm x 10 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 448
- Collection: Prints of original post cards of Witteman Brothers Postal Card Company
- Object Type: Image
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