Nash Island Light
Encyclopedia
Nash Island Light is a lighthouse
on Nash Island at the entrance to Pleasant Bay
in Maine
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Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
on Nash Island at the entrance to Pleasant Bay
Pleasant Bay (Maine)
Pleasant Bay is a bay in Washington County, Maine at the mouth of the Pleasant River.Located between the towns of Addison and Harrington, on the east it is bordered by Cape Spit and on the west it is separated from Harrington Bay by Ripley Neck, and from Narraguagus Bay by Dyer Island.The bay...
in Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
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History
It was first established in 1838. The present structure was built in 1874. It was replaced by a buoy in 1982. The USCG historical site says that it included a one room schoolhouse, although that's hard to understand on a small offshore island.Keepers
- John Wass (1847–1853)
- Daniel Curtis (1853-unknown)
- Enos D. Wass (1865–1872)
- Edwin K. Heath (1872–1876)
- Nehemiah Guptill (1876–1881)
- Roscoe G. Lophaus (1881–1883)
- Charles S. Holt (1883–1902)
- Osmond Cummings
- Allen Carter Holt (1910–1916)
- John Purington (1916–1935)
- Edwin Pettegrow (c. 1930s)
- Larson Alley (unknown-1947)
- Edward Wallace (1947–1958)