Bald Head Cliff Base-End Station - Location 152
(image forthcoming)
This three-story concrete tower with attached cottage was completed in April 1944 on a leased 0.37 acre site as a Base-End Station for Fort Dearborn (B12 S12 for Battery 103/Seaman and AAIS OP 11). Searchlight position #19 was located just east of the station. A concrete-block pump house, with a 6000 gallon storage tank, was built behind (west of) the cottage, disguised as a one-car garage. The station was dismantled in 1964 for a new Cliff House Hotel unit.
The Cliff House Hotel once had their own wooden lookout tower just to the south of the cottage for the use of hotel guests, which pre-dated the war.
(NOTE: No US Army coastal defense radar station was here during WWII. The US Navy and Air Force used several of the base-end stations in the 1950's for coastal defense observation, and as experimental radar testing platforms, which may explain the local tradition of this being a radar site. I have not, however, found any evidence to this date to confirm this.)
Located at the Cliff House Hotel, Bald Head Cliff, York, Maine.
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