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New Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, United States, off the tip of the Middle Peninsula. Finished in 1804, [ 3 ] it is the third-oldest surviving light in the bay, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.
As with the other light, however, Dr Atwood was unable to complete his plan. The tower and original foundation remain in service. As of the 2007–2008 winter, the old girder works of the original lighthouse were removed and replaced by a single concrete-filled caisson with superstructure tower and light and placards.
The New Point Comfort Light was built from 1802–1805 and by 1852, it was partially cut off by the sea and formed a new island. In 1904, the New Point Comfort Development Company was formed to build a resort on the peninsula by reclaiming the marsh that separated the lighthouse from the mainland and building beaches .
The first lighthouse in the state was erected in 1792 (the first Cape Henry Light) and it is the oldest surviving structure; the last, Chesapeake Light, was built in 1965 (ignoring automated towers erected later). The tallest extant tower is that at Cape Charles Light.
Wolf Trap Light is a caisson lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, about seven and a half miles northeast of New Point Comfort Light. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Old Plantation Flats Light, from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society; de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 170. ISBN 9780801815485. "Old Plantation Flats Light Station Replica". Bay Creek Resort & Club. Archived from the original on 2007-07-20
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Chesapeake Light is an offshore lighthouse marking the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. [1] The structure was first marked with a lightship in the 1930s, and was later replaced by a " Texas Tower " in 1965.