Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse — Image by kenne
“Extending into the harbor from the grounds of Fort Preble on the Southern Maine Community College
Campus in South Portland, visitors will find a conspicuous profile in the landscape at the end of a 950-foot breakwater.
It is Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, a caisson-style lighthouse built in 1898 to warn mariners of a dangerous
ledge in Portland Harbor upon which it sits.” — Source: visitportland.com
![[ ... the whisper of fall ]](https://i0.wp.com/live.staticflickr.com/65535/55554365880_8da128c729_s.jpg?w=1000&ssl=1 "[ ... the whisper of fall ]")
It’s one of three “sparkplug” style lighthouses in the state, or so we’re told of the one just south of us, in the Lubec Channel. I do find them rather charming in their own way.
That they are.