BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 6, 2024
Bad news: Maine’s beloved, candy-striped lighthouse at West Quoddy Head is not the easternmost point in the United States, as it’s so often called. In 1884, when the International Date Line) was drawn, an uninhabited, volcanically volatile, 85-square-mile outlying island in the Aleutian Archipelago in Alaska is the easternmost point in the United States. But even though Alaska’s Semisopochnoi Island is technically the easternmost point in the U.S., Mainers can still boast. Since that island is uninhabited, we’ve still got the easternmost lighthouse, town, state park and gift shop.