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    Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a headland at the entrance of the primary shipping channel...
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    Maine, encompassing numerous historical sites. Famous for having Portland Head Light on its grounds, the park also encompasses the decommissioned and...
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    The Portland Breakwater Light (also called Bug Light) is a small lighthouse in South Portland, Maine, United States. A lighthouse was first built here...
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    Coast. The light station was added to the National Register of Historic Places as West Quoddy Head Light Station on July 4, 1980. West Quoddy Head is an easterly-pointing...
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    Cape Elizabeth, Maine (category Portland metropolitan area, Maine)
    wealthiest towns in the state, Cape Elizabeth is the location of Portland Head Light, which is the oldest lighthouse in Maine. Since 1999, it has hosted...
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    survive but only one of each pair is active. The Portland Head Light, first lit in 1791, is the oldest light in the state and was the first US lighthouse...
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  • Aires, Argentina, on 24 December 1886, when she struck the ledge at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Lighthouse Keeper Joshua Strout, his son...
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    lighthouse (after Portland Head Light) and the nation's eleventh-oldest. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Wood Island Light Station on...
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    Bass Harbor Head Light is a lighthouse located within Acadia National Park in the southwest portion of Mount Desert Island, Maine, marking the entrance...
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    Harbor Defenses of Portland, in World War II, during which the former western lighthouse was a fire control tower. Cape Elizabeth Light, designed in the...
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