Cape Elizabeth Light

Cape Elizabeth Light, known as Two Lights, marks the southwestern entrance to Casco Bay as the surviving active tower of a once-paired lighthouse station established in 1828 on Cape Elizabeth. The original rubble-stone towers were later replaced by cast-iron conical towers, and the station gained Fresnel lenses and an early steam-driven warning whistle. Though heavily maintained, the coast remained hazardous, most famously in 1885 when keeper Marcus A. Hanna helped rescue two schooner crewmen from the wrecked Australia during a snowstorm. The western tower was retired in 1924, while the eastern light continued operating and the site also became well known through Edward Hopper’s paintings.

Cape Elizabeth, Maine · United States