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Mulholland Point Light | Campobello Island, New BrunswickDescription
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p. 121:
MULHOLLAND POINT LIGHT
In 1885 a fixed white light, visible for 13 miles, was built on the tip of Mulholland's Point, Campobello Island, on the eastern side, about 400 feet toward the Lubec Narrows, to guide shipping. About 18 feet above high water, the lighthouse's base was built on mortared stone, to support a 44-foot wooden-frame cedar shingled tower with a 12-foot lamp using oil as fuel. The light itself was 60 feet above sea level. The Lubec Channel route, by Muholland Point Light, was eight miles shorter for coastal shipping than sailing around the eastern shore of Campobello, and the island sheltered the vessels from Atlantic storms. By 1954 tides had eroded the bank beneath the lighthouse so stone and wooden retaining walls were built against sea. The department considered Mulholland Point Light obsolete in 1962 because the F.D.R. Memorial Bridge was equipped with lights to guide ships. The light was purchased by Shirley, Anthony, Lynn, Donald and Austin Look, of Whiting, Maine, owners of A.M. Look Canning Company, from Clifford Calder of Campobello, who had it bought it from the Canadian federal government after it was decommissioned in 1963. In 1984 the Looks donated this lighthouse and fbur acres of land to the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, in memory of Clifford Calder. The Commission placed a plaque, with the donors' names, on this lighthouse and built a picnic and parking area for visitors. The U.S. Corps of Engineers praised the "design, materials and workmanship" of the 1885 builders, pointed out that every visitor sees this lighthouse when crossing the F.D.R. Bridge, and recommended it for the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Lubec Channel Light, on the U.S. side, is visible from Muholland Point. The Corps of Engineers completed an emergency shore line protection project at Muholland Point in 1989. In 1991, staff of the Building Conservation Branch of the National Park Service Cultural Resource Center in Boston completed the restoration of the lighthouse. HB, JCB