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| Saddleback Ledge Light - click to enlarge |
Saddleback pokes its way up though the water quite precipitously for 25 to 30 feet -- a rock shaped something like its name and just large enough for the station it supports. Against it the sea rages on all sides C. L. Knight, Maine writer and former Lighthouse Keeper.
In 1836 a Circus Ship ran aground and sank with all of the people and animals killed. Saddleback Ledge had claimed another ship. Congress approved a sum of $15,000.00 (a large sum at the time) to construct a light on that ledge.
Work proceeded to build a granite block light and outfit it with a fourth-order Fresnel lens, a keepers house was constructed at the time, but it has since been destroyed. The light was automated and the optic lens flashes white every 6 seconds and the fog horn blows every ten seconds at all times.
This light is located four miles from the Island of Vinalhaven and is fairly well out to sea, rent a boat or plane to see this light.
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| The whole shebang |
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| When Keepers lived here this was the "railway" for the boat. |
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| Back in the day, keepers quarters, boathouse and it looks like high tide. |
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