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Pumpkin Island Lighthouse Fun Facts
Location: Eggermoggin Reach / Penobscot Bay
Closest City: Sargentville, Maine
Latitude: 44.3092 Longitude: -68.7429
Body of Water: Penobscot Bay
Open to Public: No
Station Established: 1854
Present Tower Activated: 1854
Status of Light: Deactivated, 1934
Tower Height: 28 ft.
Optic: Fifth Order Fresnel, 1854
National Register Reference #: 87002537
Listing Name: Pumpkin Island Light Station
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This 28 foot, cylindrical, white tower with black lantern rests just off the tip of Little Deer Isle in a part of Penobscot Bay referred to as Eggemoggin Reach, which separates the island from the mainland at this point. Built in 1854 along with an attached 1.5 story, colonial-cape style keeper's quarters, this site also hosts a brick oil house (1906) and a boathouse. Public use of this site, along with the Winter Harbor lighthouse, was discontinued in 1934 and was sold to a private party. An automated dry ledge beacon was installed nearby to take over light duties. This site remains under private ownership and is closed to the public.
Great photo opportunities of the Pumpkin Island lighthouse can be had by following Rt. 15 across Eggemoggin Reach (via the Deer Island suspension bridge) and turning right on Eggemoggin Rd. Take Eggemoggin Rd. to its end at the north tip of the island. Turn right onto a gravel road just past the an information booth which leads to a parking area.
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