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Managing Organization:
Town of Swan’s Island. Financial support through Friends of the Swan’s Island Lighthouse (FOSIL).
Website: https://www.burntcoatharborlight.com/
Email: fosil@burntcoatharborlight.com
Contact Address Information:
P.O. Box 11
Swans Island
Maine,
04685-0011,
United States
Notes:
The light station was built in 1872, and originally had front and rear range lights. The front range light was discontinued in 1884 after wreck of the J.B.Sawyer. The Town took title to the light station in 1994. A restoration project began in 2004. The keeper’s house is fully restored and in the summer months it is open to the public with exhibits and art. Upstairs, there is a rental apartment. For more information, visit www.burntcoatharborlight.com Tower Height: 32 Height of Focal Plane: 75 Characteristic and Range: Occulting 4 second flash (on for 3.4 seconds, off for 0.6 seconds). Listed nominal range is 9 nautical miles. Description of Tower: Square white brick tower with black cast iron lantern.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1872 1.5 story L-shaped Cape Cod style keeper's house, 1911 trapezoidal wood fog bell tower, 1895 brick oil house. Date Established: 1872 Date Present Tower Built: 1872 Date Automated: 1975 Optics: 1872 - 4th order Fresnel lens. 1975 - 250 mm lens, details unknown. Prior to 2017 - Maxlumina 300mm Fresnel lens, single piece acrylic optic, controlled by CG 181 flasher. 2017 - Marine LED Beacon, VLB-44/2.5, vertical divergence 2.5 degrees, Voltage: 10-18VDC, made by Vega Industries. Range TBD. Fog Signal: 1911: Fog bell; later fog horn. Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? Grounds open. Keeper’s house and tower open summer months, schedule posted on www.burntcoatharborlight.com Museum?
Directions:
Swan’s Island is accessible via a year round passenger and car ferry from Bass Harbor. See https://www.maine.gov/mdot/ferry/swansisland/ For maps and information about travel to Swan’s Island, see www.burntcoatharborlight.com Mapquest URL: Click here to get a map to this lighthouse! Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places Keepers: F.A.Allen 1872-1875; William N. Wasgatt, 1876-1883; Thomas E. Dodge, 1883-1886; James H. Orcutt, 1886-1897; Orrin Milan, 1897-1932; Roscoe Chandler, 1932-1943; John Henry Reardon, 1943-1946; John Kittila, 1950?; Robert Achilles, 1954; Carroll Alley 1954-1958; Robert Bosley 1959-61; Roger Drinkwater, 1960s; Larry Conley, 1965; Richard Braman 1968-70; Don Costantino 1971-72; Philip Felch 1972-1975.
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