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Mount Desert Rock
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View across rocks toward the Mount Desert Rock granite lighthouse, established in 1830 and automated in 1977, located thirty miles out to sea on a treeless island. The keeper's house and other outbuildings are just behind the lighthouse on the right.
1918
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WHi 71848
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Elevated view from hill looking down toward buildings in the hills along the coast.
