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West Quoddy Light from the Shore

Lighthouses in Maine" - "West Quoddy Lighthouse Historical Narrative

For over two centuries and more, many a skipper, many a helmsman felt the surge of deliverance upon first spotting the Quoddy Lighthouse, guardian of the most easterly point of the United States. Its fear-mitigating presence began perpetual vigil from West Quoddy Head with the first lighthouse tower in 1808. The West Quoddy name paradox arose because East Quoddy Head lies farther east and a dozen miles north on Campobello Island, outside the U.S. border in Canada." - West Quoddy Head Ligktkeepers Assoc.

 

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Uploaded on December 2, 2009
Taken on September 12, 2009