From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Lighthouse Marshalls Point. Port Clyde Maine. 415.
Lighthouse at Marshall Point, Port Clyde Maine. Lighthouse, Marshalls Point, Port Clyde, Maine 415." Marshall Point Light stands at the entrance to the harbor at Port Clyde, on the St. George Peninsula. Once called Herring Gut, Port Clyde had a bustling sardine industry. It is an active fishing town and is home to the Monhegan Boat Line. The present lighthouse was built in 1858 after the 1832 tower and house were struck by lightning. A long walkway, no longer covered, connects the light tower to flat ground. Another lightning strike destroyed the keeper's dwelling in 1895, after which the present house was built. In the right foreground is the bell tower built in 1898. It was run by a weight mechanism, similar to a large clock that had a striking hammer; it had to be wound every four hours. The light was electrified in 1935 and automated in 1971. At one time the Weather Bureau maintained a weather station at Marshall Point; the mast for weather signals is to the right of the keeper's house. Today the house is a museum, and the Town of St. George owns the entire property.
