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Baltimore Harbor Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
The Baltimore Harbor Light is one of the last lighthouses built on the Chesapeake Bay. |
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Blakistone Island Light
Maryland,
USA
Potomic River
Blakistone Island Light was a two-story brick keeper's dwelling with a tower through its center, which sat on a two-acre plot at the southern tip of the island. Construction was completed, and the light lit in 1851. |
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Bloody Bar Point
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
A light was requested for this location as early as 1868 to mark both the bar and the northern entrance to the Eastern Bay. |
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Bodkin Point Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
In 1851 the station was one of many lights castigated in a Congressional audit of aids to navigation. The auditors found the light maintained by a blacksmith and his family who kept it in filthy, sooty condition. |
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Cedar Point Lighthouse
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
1996 the remains of the lighthouse were dismantled, inventoried, and the gabled roof end and bricks were delivered to the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland, to be used in the building of a pavilion at the museum. |
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Choptank River Light
Maryland,
USA
Choptank River
This is the only lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay to have been replaced with an existing lighthouse from another location. |
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Clay Island Light
Maryland,
USA
Wicomico River
Clay Island Lighthouse was replaced by Sharkfin Shoal Light in 1892 and the building collapsed two years later. |
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Cobb Point Bar Light
Maryland,
USA
Potomac River
Originally known as the "Cob" Point Bar, The Cobb Point Bar, also know as Cobb Island Bar, was a square cottage screwpile that was pre-fabricated at Lazaretto Depot using the same plans as the light at Tangier Sound in Virginia. |
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Concord Point Lighthouse
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
Concord Point Light is a 36-foot tower that was built in 1827. It is the second oldest tower lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay. |
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Cove Point Lighthouse
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
Cove Point is a beautiful site on the Chesapeake Bay where one can look back at the Calvert Cliffs. |
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Craighill Channel Upper Range Front Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
Initially a small bridge connected the light to the shore, where a keepers dwelling was built. However, this was destroyed by a storm in 1893. Rather than re-build the bridge, It was decided that the keeper would move into the less than twelve foot square lighthouse and use a skiff to get to shore. |
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Craighill Channel Upper Range Rear Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
Craighill Channel Upper Range Rear Light (Cutoff Channel Range Rear) was built in 1886 and consists of an iron frame supporting a wooden tower that is covered with corrugated iron. |
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Drum Point Lighthouse
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay at entrance to the Patuxent River
The Drum Point Lighthouse, a screwpile, cottage-type light is only one of three remaining from forty-five that once served the Chesapeake Bay at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
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Fishing Battery Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
The original structure was a brick one and half story house with the lantern in the center of the roof ridge, similar in former to those built at Point Lookout and Blakistone Island. |
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Fog Point Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
Located on North-western tip of Smith Island it marked the narrow passage north of Smith Island through Kedges Strait. No trace of the light remains. |
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Fort Carroll Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
The construction of Fort Carroll beginning in 1847 set a large new hazard to navigation immediately adjacent to the ship channel, and a keeper's house with a light tower on it was constructed in 1854. At the time, the light keeper was the only resident of the artificial island. |
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Fort Washington Light
Maryland,
USA
Potomac River
Fort Washington Light is an unusual lighthouse located on the banks of the Potomac River on the grounds of its namesake fort. Although there has been a lighthouse on this location since 1857, the current light was converted from a fog bell tower in 1901. |
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Gibbs Hill Lighthouse
Southampton Parish,
Bermuda
Atlantic Ocean and Bermuda's Great Sound
Gibb's Hill Lighthouse began its job on May 1, 1846 and has been flashing out its beam to seafaring men ever since first by the use of kerosene, and now by electricity. |
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Great Shoals Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
This light was located near the mouth of the Wicomico River, Chesapeake Bay, on the Maryland Eastern Shore |
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Greenbury Point (Shoal) Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
This replacement for the land-based Greenbury Point Lighthouse sat on the shoal about half a mile south of Greenbury Point, and was sometimes referred to as "Greenbury Point Shoal Light". |
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Greenbury Point Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
The first light on this site was constructed in 1848 and bore little resemblance to other lights in the area. |
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Hawkins Point Light
Maryland,
USA
Patapsco River, Baltimore
The Hawkins Point Light, also know as Brewerton Range Front Light and Brewerton Channel Range Front Light was the front-range light and was unique screwpile structure – rectangular. |
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Hooper Island Light
Maryland,
US
Chesapeake Bay
This lighthouse, three miles off Hooper Island, is the last of four lighthouses constructed by the federal government in Dorchester County, Maryland. In the spring of 2007 the U.S. Lighthouse Society responded to the National Park Service application request for the transfer of the lighthouse to a non-profit organization through the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 (NHLPA). On May 31, 2009 the organization received official notice that they had been awarded the lighthouse. |
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Hooper Straight Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
This 1879 lighthouse standing on Navy Point once lit the way through the tricky waters of Hooper Strait, a thoroughfare for traffic bound from the Bay across Tangier Sound to Deals Island or places along the Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers. |
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Janes Island Light
Maryland,
US
Chesapeake Bay
Janes Island (also sometimes called James Island) has a shoal jutting out into Tangier Sound from its southwest point. The shoal was marked with lightships beginning in 1853, and in 1866 a screw-pile light was erected on the spot. It was destroyed by ice in 1879, and a new light was constructed to replace it, identical to the second Hooper Strait Light. The new light was damaged by ice in 1893, and in 1935 the house was torn from the foundation and floated in the sound for three days before sinking. A new beacon was constructed, a short tower on a caisson foundation, and it has remained in service since. |
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Lazeretto Point Light
Maryland,
US
Baltimore Harbor
Lazaretto Point, directly opposite from Fort McHenry, acquired its name from a smallpox quarantine hospital which once occupied the point. By the time that John Donahoo began construction of a brick tower light in 1831, the hospital was gone; the name was destined to live on in local naval lore, however, as in 1863 a depot was established around the tower for the construction and resupply of lighthouses throughout the bay. Many screw-pile lighthouses were prefabricated at the depot in preparation for erection at their final sites. |
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Sandy Point Shoal Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
In 1883 the Sandy Point Shoal caisson with a 37-foot Empire-style eight-sided, red brick tower with a white roof and black lantern housing a 4th order Fresnel lens was built. This caisson replaced an earlier Sandy Point Light that had been built on land where Sandy Point State Park is located now. |
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St. David's Light
St. George Parish,
Bermuda
Atlantic Ocean
Located on St. David's Island and overlooking the South Shore, this famous 100 Year-old Lighthouse is a landmark on Bermudas east end. |
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Thomas Point Shoal Light
Maryland,
USA
Chesapeake Bay
The current Thomas Point light is arguably the most widely recognized lighthouse in Maryland and is the only screw-pile light on the Chesapeake Bay still in its original location. |
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