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By 1878 the Lighthouse Board was reporting that erosion at the point threatened the light, and that it was ill-located and too small to be seen against the lights of the town. An appropriation to replace the light was made in 1889, and in 1892 a new screw-pile lighthouse was activated. This sat on the shoal about half a mile south of the point ...
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. The tallest extant tower is the Craighill Channel Lower Range Rear Light.
Point No Point Lighthouse, Maryland from LighthouseFriends.com; de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780801815485. "Point No Point Lighthouse: Online auction". General Services Administration Office of Real Property Disposal
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Annapolis: Brick building built 1821-1822 by the City of Annapolis; now commercial space. 69: Old Colony Cove Site: November 21, 1978 : Address Restricted: Rose Haven: Shell midden and is 2,000 feet (610 m) long by 300 feet (91 m) wide. 70: OLIVER'S GIFT: September 18, 1985 : 3473 Ranger Rd.
A stone lighthouse was constructed in 1825 on shore at Thomas Point [3] by John Donahoo, Thomas Point Light.It was replaced in 1838 by another stone tower. The point was subject to continuing erosion (which would eventually bring down the lighthouse on the point in 1894), [6] and in 1873 Congress appropriated $20,000 for the construction of a screw-pile structure out in the bay, Thomas Point ...
The new Lighthouse Mission Ministries building. The new facility will replace the mission’s 24/7 base camp shelter downtown and will be built on the site of its 910 W. Holly St. facility.. The ...
Cove Point Lighthouse at lighthousefriends.com; Cove Point Light, from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society; de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 74–77. ISBN 9780801815485. Cove Point Lighthouse at Calvert Marine Museum website