Lubec Channel Sold For $46,000
By Sue Clark on Sep 26, 2007 in Lighthouses For Sale 
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Lubec Channel Lighthouse, Lubec, Maine, has been sold to “Zaboomba” for $46,000. The online auction closed today at 3:00 p.m. EDT with no further bids being entered. For the money, Zaboomba receives 638 square (round?) feet of living space with a 360 degree waterview. A view like that can’t be bought on the Maine coast for under half a million. But then, this is quite a fixer-upper.
According to GSA rules, the identity of the buyer will be revealed after the bidder has been contacted and the money changes hands. It’s believed Zaboomba also was an unsuccessful bidder for Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse in Delaware Bay last month.
It’s good to know that the lighthouse will remain, as it’s on the National Register of Historic Places and is still an active aid to navigation. However, it’s a shame the government is selling these beacons. One of the first acts of the newly formed government in 1789 was to take control of the often privately owned lighthouses dotting our shores, and placed them under control of the United States Lighthouse Service.
A History of the US Lighthouse Act of 1789 (pdf file; will open in a new window).
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