Whitehead Light, Whitehead Island, Penobscot Bay, Knox County, Maine
Built in 1804.
WHITEHEAD ISLAND LIGHT
Location: WHITEHEAD ISLAND/PENOBSCOT BAY SOUTHERN ENTRANCE
Station Established: 1807
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1852
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1982
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: NATURAL/EMPLACED
Construction Materials: GRANITE/ASPHALT
Tower Shape: CONICAL ATTACHED TO SERVICE ROOM
Markings/Pattern: NATURAL
Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
Original Lens: THIRD ORDER FIXED, FRESNEL 1855
Historical Information:
- 1807 – 1st lighthouse built.
- 1839 – Fog signal installed.
- 1857 – Current structure built.
- 1869 – Fog bell replaced by steam whistle.
- 1933 – Electricity added to the station.
- 1982 – Lighthouse automated.
- 2001 – Lighthouse converted to solar power.
Keepers:
- Ellis Dolph (1804-1807)
- Ebenezer Otis (1813-1816)
- Charles Haskell (1816-1821)
- Samuel Davis (1821-1840)
- William Perry, Jr. (1840-1841 and 1845-1849)
- Joshua Bartlett (1849)
- Dennis Pillsbury (1853)
- Samuel B. Stackpole (1853-1858)
- Albert Thomas, assistant (1854)
- Edwin R. Stackpole (1853-1858)
- Eugene Stackpole, assistant (1857)
- Elisha Snow. Assistant (1857-1859)
- Isaac Sterns (1858-1860)
- Thomas Shoutts, assistant (1859-1860)
- Samuel Ludwig, assistant (1860)
- William Spear (1860-1861)
- William Spear, Jr., assistant (1860-1861)
- Ephraim Quinn (1861-1862)
- William Perry, assistant (1861-1862)
- Archibald McKellar (1862)
- James McKellar, assistant (1862)
- Edward Spaulding (1862-1865)
- E. Cooper Spaulding, assistant (1862-1866)
- Hezekiah Long (1865-1875)
- Horace Norton, assistant (1866-1874)
- Abbie B. Long, assistant (1867-1875)
- Isaac N. Grant (1875-1890)
- Abby B. Grant, assistant (1875-1890)
- Knot Perry, assistant (1876)
- George L. Upton (1890-1892)
- Frank N. Jellison (assistant 1890-1892, keeper 1892-1905)
- Daniel Stevens (1892)
- George Matthews, assistant (1892-1898)
- Joseph W. Jellison, second assistant (1895-1898)
- Walden B. Hodgkins, second assistant (1899-1902)
- Otto A. Wilson, second assistant (1899)
- George S. Connors, second assistant (1899-1902)
- Edward T. Merritt, second assistant (1902-1903)
- Elmer Reed, assistant, then keeper (1902-1912)
- George M. Joyce, second assistant (1903-1905)
- A. Faulkingham, second assistant, then first assistant (1905-1909)
- Stephen F. Flood, first assistant (1905-1907)
- Frank B. Ingalls, second assistant (1907-1909)
- Fairfield H, Moore, first assistant (1909-1911)
- John E. Purrington, second assistant (1909-1911)
- Lester Leighton, second assistant (1911-1913)
- Charles Robinson, assistant (1913-unknown)
- Hervey H, Wass, first assistant (1913-1919)
- Arthur B. Mitchell (1919-1929)
- Arthur Marston (1923-1928)
- Arthur J. Beal (1929-1950)
- Frank Alley, second assistant (1928-194?)
- George Lester Alley, first assistant (1926-194?)
- Clyde Grant (Coast Guard, c. 1950)
- Gordon P. Eaton (Coast Guard, c. 1950-1952)
- Richard (Rick) Ames (Coast Guard, c. 1950)
- Ronald Upton (Coast Guard keeper, 9/1973-5/1974)
Researched and written by Marie Vincent, a volunteer through the Chesapeake Chapter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society.