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Item 16447

Fog Bell from Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: 1872 Location: Biddeford Media: Steel

Item 16419

Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford, 1944

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: 1944-03-01 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 16489

Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Jeremy D'Entremont, American Lighthouse Foundation through Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: 1920 Location: Biddeford Media: Postcard

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Steam powered the 19th Century, and eventually fog signals at lighthouses. That shed first housed a hot-air horn, then in 1868 a steam whistle…"