White 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi), Red 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi)
Characteristic
Flashing white 6s with two red sectors.
Spring Point Ledge Light Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architect
US Army Corps of Engineers
MPS
Light Stations of Maine MPS
NRHP reference No.
87002279[1]
Added to NRHP
January 21, 1988
Spring Point Ledge Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in South Portland, Maine, which marks a dangerous obstruction on the west side of the main shipping channel into Portland Harbor.[2][3] It is now adjacent to the campus of Southern Maine Community College. It was constructed in 1897 and automated in 1960.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Maine". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-08-08. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
^United States Coast Guard (2009). Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. p. 64.
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