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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.
Point Lookout Light is a lighthouse that marks the entrance to the Potomac River at the southernmost tip of Maryland's western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, south of the town of Scotland in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA. The lighthouse is located in Point Lookout State Park. It is not open to the public.
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
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.
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
off Maryland Point in the Potomac River, East of Fairview Beach, Virginia: ... The Maryland Point Light was a screw-pile lighthouse located in the Potomac River.
Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying Point Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
Concord Point Light is a 36-foot (11 m) lighthouse in Havre de Grace, Maryland. It overlooks the point where Susquehanna River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, an area of increasing navigational traffic when it was constructed in 1827. [2] [3] It is the northernmost lighthouse and the second-oldest tower lighthouse still standing on the bay.