Pumpkin Island Light

Year Built

1854

Cost

$3,500

Type

Conical Tower

Height

25 feet

Location

Pumpkin Island, Deer Isle

Automated Year

1930

First Lit

1855

Lens Type

Fifth order Fresnel Lens

Fog Signal

None

Year Deactivated

1933

Color

White w/black lantern

Last Keeper - Date

Frank M. Rumery ( – 1933)

Description

The tower is round, capped by an octagonal lantern house, an iron walkway with railing surround the lantern house. There are two windows and a workroom to the south connects it to the keeper's house, a small, three-bay, single-story, wood-frame clapboarded structure. A small brick oil house stands a short way off, and there is a wood-frame boathouse.

Brief History

•  In December 1854 the Pumpkin Island Light was first lit.
•  In 1885 a boathouse was built and four years later the tower was raised 3 feet by the installation of a new lantern.
•  An oil house was added in 1904 and the boathouse was enlarged in 1906.
•  The original lens was replaced by another fifth order lens in 1909. In 1930 the light was automated.
•  The station was sold at an auction in 1934. It remains in private ownership. It is not an active aid to navigation.