Seguin Island

This large, powerful light, which stands 180 feet above the water, contrasts strikingly with the modest, red brick keeper's quarters. This was Maine's first offshore station, located about two miles from the mouth of the Kennebec River. To relieve his wife's boredom in this foggy locale, one keeper bought her a player piano. It had just one tune, and she played it over and over again. This drove the keeper mad. He strangled his wife, took an ax to the piano and, some say, subsequently committed suicide. Connie Scovill Small also lived here and wrote about it in a memoir, The Lighthouse Keeper's Life. The light can be seen from Popham Beach. Seguin Island Light Station was built in 1795.