Two Bush Island Light

Year Built

1897

Cost

$19,000

Type

Square Brick Tower

Height

42 feet

Location

Penobscot Bay entrance

Automated Year

1964

First Lit

1897

Lens Type

VRB-25

Fog Signal

Horn: 1 every 15s

Year Deactivated

Active

Color

White w/black lantern

Last Keeper - Date

Harry M. Beal (1964)

Description

The lighthouse was established in 1897 and keepers were removed when the light was automated in 1964. The keeper's house was destroyed in 1970 as a Green Beret demolition exercise.

Brief History

•  A winter gale in 1902 drove the fishing schooner Clara Bella onto the rocks near Two Bush Lighthouse.
•  The intensity of Two Bush Light was increased in 1902 through the installation of a fourth-order lens in the tower.
•  On August 26, 1964, new electric compressors and fog signals were put into operation and remotely controlled from Whitehead Lighthouse.
•  Ownership of the lighthouse was transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1998, and is now part of the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
•  The light was converted to solar power in 2000.