29112. (photo) Grindle Point Lighthouse, Islesboro, Maine c.1950.
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29112. (photo) Grindle Point Lighthouse, Islesboro, Maine c.1950.
29112. (photo) Grindle Point Lighthouse, Islesboro, Maine c.1950. Lovely professional photograph is signed by photographer H.E. Hammond and shows a remarkably close and clear view of the square brick light tower and connected keeper’s dwelling, now the Sailor’s Memorial Museum. Islesboro is a 13-mile long, narrow island in upper Penobscot Bay. After a Congressional appropriation of $3500 in March 1848, a light station was established at Grindle Point on South Islesboro’s west coast in 1851 to aid mariners entering Gilkey Harbor. The present 1874 light tower is a square 39-foot brick tower attached by a covered walkway to the 1 ½ -story keeper’s house. The tower originally had a fifth-order Fresnel lens. Photo measures 7 ½” x 9 ½” and is in original black wood frame. A great view. (VG). $38.