The Prospect Harbor Lighthouse’s keeper’s cottage is getting reroofed as part of the U.S. Navy s efforts to stabilize and preserve the historic structure standing on the harbor s eastern shore.
Off limits to the public, the U.S. Navy’s Prospect Harbor Light Station Historic District is located on the U.S. Naval Satellite Operations Center property.
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The 173-year-old light tower was not damaged, but the U.S. Navy says it’s too early to determine whether the heavily damaged historic keeper’s quarters will be rebuilt.
In addition, the fourth-graders learned that the British Admiralty knew Prospect Harbor as watering cove because a stream emptied into the harbor was a source of fresh water.