Built in 1808 and rebuilt in 1858, the red-and-white-striped West Quoddy Head Light still holds its original lens. The lighthouse was one of the first to use a fog bell. Such bells warned ships when fog rendered a lighthouse's lamp useless.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Founders of New England: Centuries After the Pilgrims and Puritans, an Englishman Seeks Forgotten Shrines In His Homeland and Theirs," June 1953, National Geographic magazine)
