SEGUIN ISLAND LIGHT
Location: KENNEBEC RIVER/SOUTH OF GEORGETOWN
Station Established: 1795
Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1857
Operational? YES
Automated? YES 1985
Deactivated: n/a
Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
Construction Materials: GRANITE BLOCKS/BRICK
Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL
Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
Original Lens: FIRST ORDER, FRESNEL 1857
Historical Information:
- Highest lighthouse on the Maine coast.
- 1795 – 38’ tall wooden tower built for $6,300.
- 1819 – 2nd lighthouse, granite stone tower, built after the original lighthouse was toppled by a storm.
- 1857 – A larger granite block lighthouse built and 1st order Fresnel lens installed. Keeper’s house built.
- 1889 – Fog signal tower built.
- 1892 – Oil house built.
- 1953 – Electric generators installed.
- 1985 – Lighthouse automated.
- 1986 – Friends of Sequin Island formed. Friends received a 10-year lease on the station.
- 1998 – Property transferred outright to the Friends of Sequin Island.
Keepers:
- John Polereszky (1796-1802)
- Christopher Pushard (assistant, 1796-1802)
- John Hollaway (assistant? c.1800)
- Moses Haskell (1802-1822)
- Jonathan Delano (1822-1825)
- Spencer Delano (assistant? c.1820)
- John Salters (1825-1839)
- Nathaniel Springer Todd (1839-1849)
- James Marston (1849-1853)
- A. E. Osgood (1853-1857)
- Boyd L. Miles (assistant, 1855)
- Joseph King (assistant, 1855)
- Stephen Marston Jr. (1857)
- Daniel Dodge (1857)
- John C. Lowell (1857-1859)
- Granville Lowell (1859-1861)
- Tallman B. Lowell (assistant, 1859-1860)
- William M. Knight (1860-1861)
- Zina H. Spinney (1861-1866)
- P. O. Spinney (assistant, 1861-1865)
- David Spinney 2nd (assistant, 1861-1863)
- David Spinney (assistant, 1863-1865)
- Rachel Spinney (assistant, 1865-1866)
- William S. Oliver (assistant, 1865-1866)
- Francis L. Morrill (1866-1868)
- William C. Marr (assistant, 1866)
- Ephraim S. Marr (assistant, 1866 and 1874-1875)
- Henry E. Morrill (1866-1867)
- Charles S. Morrill (assistant, 1866-1867)
- Jane Morrill (assistant, 1867-1869)
- Arthur Hutchins (assistant, 1867-1869)
- Samuel G. Crane (1867-1875)
- O. B. Crane (assistant, 1868-1871)
- J. B. Crane (assistant, 1868-1974)
- Louisa N. Lane (Crane?) (assistant, 1871-1872)
- Turner Jewett (assistant, 1872)
- Elisha B. Crane (assistant, 1874-1875)
- Thomas Day (1875-1886)
- Thomas Bibber (assistant, 1876-1880)
- Willis E. Chase (assistant, 1875)
- Henry Wiley (assistant, 1881-1882)
- Samuel Cavanor (assistant, 1882)
- Fernando Wallace (assistant, 1882-1886)
- Edwin M. Wyman (assistant, 1886-1889)
- Henry Day (1886-1890)
- Henry M. Clark (assistant, 1887)
- William H. Wyman (assistant, 1888-1889)
- Jesse Pierce (assistant, 1889)
- Merritt P. Pinkham (assistant 1889-1890, head keeper 1890-1898)
- Parker O. Healey (assistant, 1890-1893)
- William A. Stetson (assistant 1898)
- Fred Hodgkins (assistant, 1903)
- George A. Lewis (1898-1903 and 1907-1912)
- Herbert L. Spinney (assistant 1893-1898, head keeper 1903-1907)
- Walter S. Adams (assistant, 1907-1908)
- Clifford B. Staples (assistant, 1908-1912)
- Henry M. Cuskley (1912-1915)
- Maurice M. Weaver (1915-1922)
- Arthur Marston (assistant? 1921-1923)
- Napoleon B. Fickett (1922-1926)
- Elson L. Small (1926-1930)
- Frank E. Bracey (assistant 1926-1930, head keeper 1930-1931)
- Millard H. Urquhart (assistant 1928-1931, head keeper 1931-1938)
- Jasper L. Cheney (assistant, 1930-1931)
- Joseph M. Conners (assistant, 1931-1936)
- Donald E. Robbins, assistant (1930-1932)
- Clinton L. Dalzell (assistant, 1932-1933)
- Floyd E. Singer (assistant, 1932-1933)
- Truman L. Lathrop (assistant, 1933-1934)
- Benjamin Stockbridge (assistant, 1934)
- Ernest F. Witty (assistant, 1935)
- George A. McKenney (assistant, 1935-1936)
- Clarence Skolfield (assistant, 1936-1944; Coast Guard head keeper 1944-1946)
- Arthur G. Hill (assistant, 1936-1938)
- Maxwell A. DeShon (assistant, 1938-1941)
Researched and written by Marie Vincent, a volunteer through the Chesapeake Chapter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society.