Remaining in stay at home mode whilst the controversies of when and how to open swirl opening on the airwaves and in political arenas as the COVID-19 numbers trend downward, continuing to go through the archives I found this image I had taken in 1986 in York Maine of the Nubble Lighthouse or as it was called by the U.S. Coast Guard while under the organizations care Cape Neddick Lightstation. Beautiful lighthouse on the rugged Maine coastline that at the time I captured this image in 1986 on Kodacolor 100 film on my Minolta X-700 was actually manned by the U.S. Coast Guard, a lightkeeper and his family living in the quarters adjacent to the light because it was not automated until the next summer in July of 1987. In 1874 US President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered the building of a lighthouse on the ‘Knub’ of land just east of York Maine. It was completed in 1879 and the US Lighthouse Service began having lightkeeper live in the homestead built on the ‘Knub’ until the Coast Guard took over in 1939. Since then the Maine Lights program was developed in 1994 to save and preserve all the lighthouse of Maine’s coastline. The town of York decided to start the process of acquiring the Nubble Lighthouse and in 1997 the town of York became the permanent guardian of the Nubble Lighthouse thought the Coast Guard continues to maintain and care for the navigational aids the light and the horn.
Posted by Themarrero on 2020-05-19 21:10:10
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