FORT POINT LEDGE BEACON
| NGS PID: | PE2110 |
| Coordinates: | N 44.461047° W 68.810089° |
| Location: | Maine
Waldo County Castine Quad |
| Elevation: | Unknown |
| Type: | Landmark/Intersection Station |
| Setting: | Navigation Light |
| Monumented: | Unknown |
| Monumented By: | NGS |
| Status: | Recovered |
| Condition: | Good as of September 5, 2013 |
- Official Description: NGS Datasheet
A report on the condition of this survey mark has been submitted to NGS, along with the following recovery note:
Recovered in apparent good condition.
We recovered this station a year later than we could have. I recall noticing it when we first visited Fort Point last year and entertaining the thought that it might be an NGS station. Why I didn’t take a photo of it then, just in case, I don’t know. But this year I was prepared.
The station consists of a red daybeacon atop a tapered stone base. It is listed in Special Publication #46: Geodesy: Triangulation in Maine, by Walter F. Reynolds (1918). The publication indicates that observations on the beacon were taken in 1911.
