My friend Thom and I were riding around Bailey Island last Saturday when we came out to the end of a road looking over the bay. (All right, almost every road on Bailey Island ends at the bay!) 
Far out I could just make out a strange looking obviously man made … lighthouse? monument? Middle Earth wizard summer home? Luckily Thom knew the answer – It is the Little Mark Island Monument. A 50′ granite tower built as a daymarker in 1827, it has a large square room in the base that originally provided shelter to sailors who shipwrecked during storms.
At some point light was added to aid navigation. My photo is quite fuzzy both because of the distance, my weak camera, and the fact that chill factor was probably below zero the day I took it. For a much closer, really good picture of the Little Mark Island tower click here.
