Seguin Lighthouse

For more than two centuries, this lighthouse has been an important guide for mariners traveling along the Maine coast as well as for those entering the Kennebec River toward Bath and other ports. Even earlier, high Seguin Island, rising more than 100 feet above tihe sea, was a prominent landmark. In August 1607, the English founders of the Popham colony anchored at the island before landing on the mainland. When the explorer Samuel de Champlain sailed past the mouth of the Kennebec River in 1605, he aptly observed that the island looked like a giant tortoise.