Built in 1885, the Mulholland Point Lighthouse guided small coasters and freighters using the shorter, more weather-protected route through the Lubec Narrows. In the 1890s, steamships such as the Penobscot traveling between Boston, Portland, and Eastport could pass through the Narrows only at high tide; otherwise they went around the eastern side of Campobello. During Campobello's summer colony era, the first automobiles reached the island on an inter-island steam ferry from Eastport, and as automobile traffic increased, ferries carrying up to six automobiles operated at the Narrows between Lubec and Campobello, though service often depended on tides and fog. FDR, first as Governor of New York and later as President, showed interest in bridges, especially between the United States and Canada. Construction of the Roosevelt Memorial Bridge began in January 1960, with costs shared equally by Canada and the United States, and it formally opened on August 13, 1962. The bridge's navigation lights made the Mulholland Point Lighthouse obsolete, and the Canadian Coast Guard decommissioned it in 1963. It was sold to a local resident, later sold to the Look family of Washington County, Maine, and in 1984 the Look brothers donated it to the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission. The lighthouse is not open to the public.