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Portland Head Light
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Chuck Homler d/b/a Focus On Wildlife · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Commissioned by the first Congress and lit with whale oil while Washington was president, the oldest lighthouse in Maine, in a state that has more of them than any but Michigan. Longfellow walked out from Portland to sit at its base.
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