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Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, Bristol, ME

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Pemaquid Point Lighthouse

Walk the granite ledges below a white 1835 lighthouse and tour a fishermen's museum in the old keeper's house.

3115 Bristol Rd (ME-130) · Bristol, ME

About Pemaquid Point Lighthouse

Pemaquid Point Light stands on a dramatic shelf of granite at the entrance to Muscongus Bay, and its 1835 tower still shines a fourth-order Fresnel lens from 1856. The town-run park includes the Fishermen's Museum in the 1857 keeper's house, an art gallery and a learning center. Volunteer docents open the tower for climbs in season, and you may recognize the view from Maine's state quarter.

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