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The Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park is run and maintained by the Bristol Parks and Recreation Department. The park is open to visitors 9am-5pm everyday from the Middle of May until mid to late October (closing date varies each year). Other attractions at the Park include: Learning Center. Fishermen's Museum.
A historic lighthouse and museum in Bristol, Maine, with picnic areas and rest rooms. Admission fee includes access to the tower, the art gallery and the learning center.
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The tower and outbuildings are open daily. In 2003, this light became the first lighthouse to appear on American currency, when its image was used for the official Maine quarter. For more information about the lighthouse, the museum and the surrounding park, contact the Town of Bristol.
The Pemaquid Point Light is a historic U.S. lighthouse located in Bristol, Lincoln County, Maine, at the tip of the Pemaquid Neck. [2] [3] History[edit] The lighthouse was commissioned in 1827 by President John Quincy Adams and built that year.
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse is the only place in the United States where you can tour Maine’s first land-based lighthouse opened to the public, get married, spend your honeymoon, and pay for it all using the first U.S. currency ever to bear the image of a lighthouse – Maine’s official quarter featuring Pemaquid Point Lighthouse.
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse is worth a visit. The views are breathtaking and the people who work there are very sweet and informative. There is a lovely art gallery and maritime museum. Plenty of parking, clean restrooms. A spectacular gem.
Maine, USA, North America. Midcoast Maine. Perched dramatically on top of the rocks in Pemaquid Lighthouse Park is the 11,000-candlepower Pemaquid Point Light, built in 1827, which was featured on the special-edition Maine quarter. The keeper's house has been re-created as the Fisherman's Museum.
