A $6.8 million project has created the Wood Island Museum at the old life-saving station that once faced demolition in Kittery, Maine.

Wood Island Museum off the coast of Kittery, Maine, is scheduled to open Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, after restoring the former U.S. Life-Saving Service station.

KITTERY, Maine — History and mystery whisper through the air on Wood Island, once home to a life-saving station that housed surfmen tasked with saving mariners in distress. In June 1972, the ...

WOOD ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA. The lighthouses of Maine have always been beacons of hope, salvation, sanctuary, comfort and danger.

Wood Island Museum off the coast of Kittery, Maine, is scheduled to open Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, after restoring the former U.S. Life-Saving Service station.