Cape Neddick/"Nubble" Light - Sohier Park - York Beach, ME
N 43° 09.939 W 070° 35.558
19T E 370535 N 4780441
A marker for the Nubble Lighthouse, an iconic Maine image.
Waymark Code: WMMCJT
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2014
Views: 12
The marker is located in Sohier Park at the parking lot at the tip of the mainland across from the lighthouse. The marker is almost directly in the line with the lighthouse as you face it, and a little to the left of the red outbuilding on the lighthouse island. It is not possible to visit the lighthouse or its island except by special arrangement, though you can view it more closely by boat.
The marker reads:
"Nubble Light House"
Cape Neddick Light Station
US Coast Guard
Erected in 1879 by the United States
Lighthouse Service to protect
mariners from the "savage rock."
Sohier Park
William Davies Sohier
1858-1938
Mr. Sohier generously donated this site of four
acres to the York Beach Village corporation
in 1929 to be used for a public park.
The lighthouse has become a symbol of Maine and New England. Famously, pictures of it were included in the Voyager spacecraft along with the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China as evidence of man's achievement should the pictures ever be viewed again by intelligent life. The lighthouse is still in operation today, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985.
Address and /or location:
Sohier Park Road
York, ME 03909
See the long description
Who put it there (Sponsor): Town of York
Date (Erected or Dediated): unknown, but between 1939 and 1985
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Visit Instructions:
1) A new photo taken by you. Make it a quality one. You do not have to be in it, nor your hand held.
2) Some new insight to the history, and/or your personal experience finding the site.