Beacon on Fiddlers Ledge

Here's the granite Beacon at Fiddler's Ledge, which helps mark the western entrance to the Fox Islands thoroughfare between the islands of North Haven and Vinalhaven It was destroyed in 1879 despite its heavy stone construction. According to the 1889 Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board, "The old stone beacon upon this ledge was destroyed by the sea and ice, in January, 1879. Its reconstruction with increased dimensions, was commenced late in the fall of that year, and resumed in May of 1880. As the ledge is covered at half-tide and is in a position very much exposed to southerly gales, the work progressed somewhat slowly."