Item 48261 - Bug Light, Portland Harbor, Portland, ca. 1900
- Item 48261 - Bug Light, Portland Harbor, Portland, ca. 1900
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- Item 48261
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Image Info South Portland's first "Bug Light" or Portland Breakwater Light was built in 1855, then moved to Little Diamond Island.
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Another structure was erected in 1874. A lighthouse keeper's house was built beside the lighthouse in 1889. It was electrified in 1937 and deactivated in 1942.
