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The Thomas Point Shoal Light, also known as Thomas Point Shoal Light Station, is a historic lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States, and the most recognized lighthouse in Maryland. [3] [4] [5] It is the only screw-pile lighthouse in the bay which stands at its original site.
The first lighthouse in the state was lit in 1822 and the last in 1965 (ignoring automated towers erected later); the oldest surviving structure is the Pooles Island Light and the oldest still active is the Cove Point Light.
Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse is one of 10 designated a National Historic Landmark. Unlike the typical lighthouse, this one is hexagonal, relatively squat, and elevated above the water.
Sandy Point Shoal Light is a brick three story lighthouse on a caisson foundation that was erected in 1883. [2] It lies about 0.6 mi (0.97 km) off Sandy Point, north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge , from whose westbound span it is readily visible.
Point No Point Light, located in the Chesapeake Bay off the eponymous point several miles north of the mouth of the Potomac River, was constructed as part of a program to add lighted navigational aids in a thirty-mile stretch of the bay between Cove and Smith Points. [2] [3] [4]
Lighthouse tenders sent after the sunken house located it some five miles (8 km) south of the strait and were able to salvage the lens, lamp, and fog bell. A new light was erected at the same location in 1879, another screw-pile light of the then typical hexagonal form, with the house being prefabricated at the Lazarretto Point depot.
Throughout the 1960s, the State of Maryland purchased land north of the lighthouse and carved out the Point Lookout State Park. In 2006, the light was turned over to Maryland as part of a land-swap deal. Also in 2006, the Point Lookout Lighthouse Preservation Society was founded to restore the lighthouse complex to the 1927 era.
Point No Point Light ; Location: Hansville, Washington: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1879: Foundation: Masonry: Construction: Brick and stucco: Automated: 1977: Height: 30 feet (9.1 m): Shape: Square: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place : Light; First lit: 1880: Focal height: 27 feet (8.2 m): Lens: Fifth order Fresnel lens (1880); Fourth order Fresnel lens (1898 ...