“1887 Map of Mount Desert Island, Maine,” Southwest Harbor Public Library, (https://swhpl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/7597 ; accessed February 3, 2025). Item 2673. Adapted by Southwest Harbor Public Library from “Mount Desert Island, Sorrento, Portions of Lamoine, Hancock and Frenchman Bay and Adjacent Islands, Maine: Compiled and Drawn from Official Plans and Actual Surveys, published by Colby & Stewart, Assisted by E. M. Hamor and Charles P. Simpson, Land Surveyors" (1887).
Sited above a bold rock ledge, Bear Island Light Station is composed of a squat tower with an attached workroom; a detached, frame gambrel-roofed keeper's house; a barn; a diminutive stone oil house; and a boathouse. Though part of Acadia …
