Pumpkin Island Light
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Pumpkin Island Light is a lighthouse
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 Pumpkin Island at the northwestern entrance to Eggemoggin Reach, which runs northwest/southeast on the north side of Deer Isle, Maine.
It was built in 1854 and discontinued in 1933.

Pumpkin Island Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Pumpkin Island Light Station on February 1, 1988, reference number 87002537.
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