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Goat Island Light Station

ALF Partners with Maine Preservation on World Monument’s Fund 2025 Watch List Nomination

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: May 2, 2024

The American Lighthouse Foundation has partnered with Maine Preservation to nominate all 66 Maine lighthouses to the World Monuments Fund 2025 Watch List. The World Monuments Fund (WMF), which is […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse, Lighthouses and Climate / Storm News, Little River Lighthouse, Owls Head Lighthouse, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, Perkins Island Lighthouse, Whaleback Lighthouse, Wood Island Lighthouse Tagged With: 2025, 66 Maine lighthouses, american lighthouse foundation, Bass Harbor Head, bob trapani, boon island, browns head, Bug Light, burnt coat harbor, burnt island, Cape Neddick, climate change, Doubling Point, dyce head, eagle island, egg rock, Ford Reiche, fort point, goat island, grindle point, halfway rock, January 2024, Kennebec River Range, little river, Maine Preservation, mark island, marshall point, matinicus rock, monhegan island, owls head, pemaquid point, Petit Manan, portland head, resiliency hazard mitigation, rising sea levels, Seguin Island, Spring Point Ledge, Squirrel Point, storms, watch list, west quoddy head, Whitehead, wood island, world monuments fund

Little River Light Station

Looking Back on 2021 – Little River Lighthouse

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: December 29, 2021

Multi-tasking and teamwork on Little River Island Going into spring 2021, we knew it was going to be a busy time at Little River Island. After losing both the overnight […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: 2021, american lighthouse foundation, benjamin kennedy, benjamin moore, bert preston, cutler, cynthia rowden, hammond lumber company, lighthouse, little river, maine, michelle bridges, preston painting, repainting, terry rowden

Little River Light

Little River Lighthouse Memories

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: August 14, 2020

The following comments were made by Neil Corbett, son of Willie Corbett, who served as keeper of Little River Lighthouse in Cutler from 1921 to 1945. The quotes appeared in […]

Filed Under: Lighthouse History, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: clockwork mechanism, cutler, fog bell, fresnel lens, keeper, lighthouse, little river, maine, neil corbett, willie corbett

Little River Island, Cutler, Maine

A Lighthouse Needed on Little River Island

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: March 25, 2020

In an 1843 report to Congress, civil engineer I.W.P. Lewis advocated for a lighthouse to be built on Little River Island in Cutler, Maine. It wasn’t until March 1847 when […]

Filed Under: Lighthouse History, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: 1843, bay of fundy, cutler, iwp lewis, lighthouse, little river, maine

Lantern at Little River

The Lantern at Little River Light is Sealed and Gleaming

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: November 18, 2019

The American Lighthouse Foundation was able to use every bit of the 2019 work season by completing a $17,640 project at the end of October on the lantern at Little […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: american lighthouse foundation, cutler, j.b. leslie company, lantern, lighthouse, little river, maine, pane glass, repainting

Little River 1956

Storm Moved Bell Tower at Little River

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: October 6, 2019

The following letter was written by Ruth Corbett Farris, daughter of Little River Light Station keeper Willie Corbett. The letter was published in the December 1954 edition of the Maine […]

Filed Under: Lighthouse History, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: bell tower, edna, hurricane, keeper, light station, lighthouse, little river, ruth cotbett farris, willie corbett

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