Portland Head Light House
by Daniel Hebard
Original - Not For Sale
Price
$600
Dimensions
59.000 x 31.500 inches
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Title
Portland Head Light House
Artist
Daniel Hebard
Medium
Photograph - Digital Panorama
Description
ACRYLIC OR METAL ONLY Mounted in the round
Family ties in Maine lead me to visit this old homeland on almost an annual basis. There are many wonderful lighthouses to photo and visit but none is more often memorialized and photographed than the Portland Head Light House. There is a wonderful park with ample room to park, stretch, and a nautical museum to visit. I often photograph light houses along the coast of Maine, but this may be the most beautiful. This is one of two similar images of varying dimension I created for you to enjoy of this famous Light House.
Wikipedia has the following description to offer:
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
Construction began in 1787 at the directive of George Washington, and was completed on January 10, 1791. Whale oil lamps were originally used for illumination. In 1855, following formation of the Lighthouse Board, a fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed; that lens was replaced by a second-order Fresnel lens, which was replaced later by an aero beacon in 1958. That lens was updated with an DCB-224 aero beacon in 1991.
In 1787, while Maine was still part of the state of Massachusetts, George Washington engaged two masons from the town of Portland, Jonathan Bryant and John Nichols, and instructed them to take charge of the construction of a lighthouse on Portland Head. Washington reminded them that the early government was poor, and said that the materials used to build the lighthouse should be taken from the fields and shores, which could be handled nicely when hauled by oxen on a drag. The original plans called for the tower to be 58 feet tall. When the masons completed this task they climbed to the top of the tower and realized that it would not be visible beyond the headlands to the south, so it was raised approximately 20 feet.
The tower was built of rubblestone, and Washington gave the masons four years to build it. While it was under construction in 1789, the federal government was being formed and for a while it looked as though the lighthouse would not be finished. Following passage of their ninth law,[5] the first congress made an appropriation and authorized the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, to inform the mechanics that they could go on with the completion of the tower. On August 10, 1790, the second session of congress appropriated a sum not to exceed $1500, and under the direction of the President, �to cause the said lighthouse to be finished and completed accordingly.�[6] The tower was completed during 1790 and first lit January 10, 1791.
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