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Doubling Point Lighthouse Fun Facts
Location: Arrowsic Island
Closest City: Arrowsic, Maine
Latitude: 43.8833 Longitude: -69.807
Body of Water: Kennebec River
Open to Public: Site: Yes
Tower: No
Station Established: 1898
Present Tower Activated: 1899
Status of Light: Operational
Tower Height: 23 ft.
Optic: 300mm, 1990
Fifth Order Fresnel, 1902
National Register Reference #: 87002271
Listing Name: Doubling Point Light
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Another in the series of lighthouses activated on the Kennebec River in 1898 (along with the Doubling Point range, Perkins Island, and Squirrel Point lighthouses), the white, wooden Doubling Point lighthouse tower is 23 feet tall and rests on a square, unpainted granite foundation. The site also sports the original 1.5 story, L-shaped, wooden keeper's quarters dating from 1898. Additional buildings still resident at the station include a brick oil house, a storage building and a sound building.
The tower, located at the end of a footbridge, was automated in 1990. The tower's original fifth-order Fresnel lens, now on display at the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland, was replaced in 1990 by a 300mm optic. By the late 1990s, the foundation was in severe disrepair caused by years of fending off the large sheets of floating ice common to the Kennebec. The Coast Guard in 1999 removed the Doubling Point lighthouse tower intact from its base and refurbished the foundation. The walkway to out to the light was repaired in 2000.
The Doubling Point lighthouse on located near the northwest corner of Arrowic Island. The site is owned and managed by the Friends of the Doubling Point Light and is open to the public (excluding the tower). Numerous tour boats pass this site including cruises originating from the Maine Maritime Museum to the north in Bath.
Lighthouse Accessibility
- This site (excluding the tower) is open to the public.
- The lighthouse can be viewed from several local boat tours.
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