A Lighthouse Discovery...for Me Anyway!

Everyday is a new discovery for me or so it seems, since moving to Maine from down South. Yesterday, we're driving down the road not far from home, and Paul says,"Did you know there's a lighthouse near here? Look over to your left." We're driving by Lake Cobbosseecontee at Manchester, Maine.

So I looked it up on the internet, and sure enough, there it was on Jeremy D'Entremont's site:
Ladies Delight

New to me, but probably not to many of you. Pretty light, especially surrounded by a frozen snow covered lake.

I would suppose this one would be classified as a private aid, as it really was an aid to navigation at one time. What do you think?

Judy

This was news to me.

In 1912 Mr. Woolworth, who owned the chain of Woolworth Stores (five and dime stores), built a very large summer estate in the area. He owned a luxury boat and loved to entertain guests on his boat, but over the years several of them asked, while out on the boat, if they were on the ocean. In 1924 he bought a small parcel of land on Lake Cobbesscontee and commissioned a contractor to build a small light house, so he could convince his guests that they were really sailing the ocean and not a lake. You have to realize that most of his guests werer from the west and mid-west, which was the area that the Woolworth Stores started in. He later deeded the property to the Lake Cobbessecontee lake Association, along with a perpetual fund for them to maintain this small inland lighthouse.
The estate also included a outstanding horse farm with some of the finest show horses of the time. The estate is still standing today in East Winthrop, and i believe maybe still owned by the heirs in the Woolworth Family.

To me it is a private aid to navigation. The only different between this and an offical aid to navigation is that the government did not build it. It is NOT a faux lighthouse as it does the work that a lighthouse was meant to (in this case mark a shallow spot).

Ask and you shall receive. Cuckolds, thanks so much for the added information and history.

And Eric, that's the way I see it too. It's a private aid.

Thanks guys!

Judy

The Woolworth family heirs must still love boating. They had a beautiful yacht docked next to our hotel in Key West.

So, Judy, where are the pictures?

And, Thanks, Cuckolds for the history lesson.

We went by Ladies Delight on October 15, 2006 on the way home from East Quoddy..

Wow, that picture brings back some memories when I was a kid....and when I use to have a boat. I would like a boat again. Any single women out there with a boat??? If there are please send me a picture of the boat!!!!

Cuckolds...your post reminded me of this picture I took last year in St. Lucia.

That is really cute....but heck I did not even ask for a good woman Lorie, just a good boat. If a good woman came with the boat that would be a real bonus.....

Sorry Dave, we didn't even think to use the IPhones. We'll have to go back.

Paul, thanks for posting your '06 photo! Did you go down Lighthouse Rd. to get it? It's posted as a private road, but I was considering the possibility.

Judy