Location: Monhegan Island, southern approach to Muscongus
Bay. Nearest town: Monhegan
43 45 54 N
69 18 54 W
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Accessibility: The grounds and the museum in the
keeper's house are open to the public. The lighthouse tower is
not open to the public.
The museum is open daily, 11:30 to 3:30, July 1
through August 31, and 12:30 to 2:30 from June 24 through June
30 and September 1 through September 30
Click here to see a deer near
the lighthouse, circa 1990.
Station established: 1824; Present lighthouse built:
1850; Automated: 1959
Construction material: Granite
Height of tower: 47 feet; Height of focal plane: 178
feet
Earlier optic: Second-order Fresnel (1856); Present
optic: VRB-25 (solar powered)
Characteristic: Flashing white every 15 seconds
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- Museum curator Tralice Bracy speaks
with visitors in the lighthouse lantern room, near the VRB-25
optic
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Other buildings still standing: 1874 keeper's house,
reconstructed 1851 keeper's house, 1893 oil house, cistern, chicken
coop, two storage buildings
Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation. Monhegan Museum
in the keeper's house maintained by:
Monhegan
Historical and Cultural Museum Association
1 Lighthouse Hill
Monhegan, ME 04852
Phone: 207-596-7003
Email: museum@monheganmuseum.org
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