Country Living at the Blue Hill Bay Light Station

One might think a lighthouse an unlikely location for a family farm. But small farms were to be found at most lighthouses built in America until the 1930's. Blue Hill Bay Light Station was one such place. This lighthouse in Maine is located, on Green Island on the west side of the bay for which it is presently named, near where an old inside passage shipping route entered Blue Hill Bay. At one time it was known as the Eggemogin Lighthouse, for it is at the eastern entrance to Eggemogin Reach, the coastal waterway that connects Penobscot Bay with Blue Hill Bay. From Blue Hill Bay Lighthouse eastward is Blue Hill Bay and then the famous Mount Desert Island, bordered by Frenchman's Bay on its northeast side.