The Cuckholds Light A stone fog signal station and keepers house was built in 1892 less than a mile away from Southport Island and the village of Newagen. Boothbay Harbor was a major fishing port and local mariners requested a lighthouse because of so many shipwrecks. A small light tower was added to the top of the original signal house in 1907 as the Cuckholds were too small to support a seperate tower. One of the last lights built on the Maine coast,named for the pair of treacherous ledges at the entrance of Boothbay Harbor Cuckholds refers to a point of land on the Thames River in England. It is said that King John had an affair with the wife of a London man and to assuage the mans anger the King gave him land on the Thames It is then suggested that the Cuckholds in Maine were named by a transplanted Londoner In 1975, the light was automated the Fresnel lens removed and the property was left abandoned. In 1978 a winter storm swept the keepers house and other building away.