Doubling Point Light

Doubling Point Light

The keeper's house is under the trees
Location	Kennebec River , Maine
Year first constructed	1898
Automated	1988
Tower shape	Octagonal Wood Tower
Markings / pattern	White
Focal height	23ft (7m)
Range	9nm
Characteristic	Fl W 4s
Fog signal	none
USCG number	1-6145 [1] [2]
Doubling Point Light Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Nearest city:	Bath, Maine
Coordinates:	43°52′57.029″N 69°48′24.376″W / 43.88250806°N 69.80677111°W / 43.88250806; -69.80677111Coordinates: 43°52′57.029″N 69°48′24.376″W / 43.88250806°N 69.80677111°W / 43.88250806; -69.80677111
Built:	1898
Architect:	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Governing body:	U.S. Coast Guard
MPS:	Light Stations of Maine MPS
NRHP Reference#:	87002271 [1] [3] [4]
Added to NRHP:	January 21, 1988

Doubling Point Light is a lighthouse on the Kennebec River, in Arrowsic, Maine. The Doubling Point light was established in 1898, fifteen years after the founding of the Bath Iron Works, a major shipbuilder, one and a half miles upriver. It was part of a major upgrade of the river's lights — the Doubling Point Light and the separate Range Lights on the point, Perkins Island Light, and Squirrel Point Light were all built at the same time.

Doubling Point Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Doubling Point Light Station on January 21, 1988, reference number 87002271.^[4]

Gallery

View from downriver, showing access bridge  Bath Iron Works is about 1.5 nm upriver of the light  The light as shown on NOAA chart 13296

See also

• Lighthouses in the United States

References

1. ^ ^{a b} (PDF) Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2009. p. 53. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList%20V1.pdf. 
2. ^ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Maine". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-08-05. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHME.asp. 
3. ^ The coordinates shown are the official coordinates from the cited Light List and are shown to the precision given there.
4. ^ ^{a b} "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.