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The Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse in 1994. In 2003 Milwaukee County leased the lighthouse and keepers quarters to the North Point Lighthouse Friends and they began restoration of the tower and keepers quarters. A $984,000 grant was used to restore the light station and it re-opened to the public as a maritime museum in 2007. [5]
The North Point Range Lights were some of the earliest lights in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Intended to guide ships headed for Baltimore harbor into the Patapsco River , they were superseded by channel construction in the 1870s and 1980s, and were replaced by the Craighill Channel Upper Range front and rear lights.
An initial plan to reuse the west North Point Range Light was discarded in favor of a tiny brick structure constructed on the foundation of the old light. The keeper's house was built on the shore, and a long wooden bridge allowed access to the light itself.
Media related to Point No Point Light (Maryland) at Wikimedia Commons Point No Point Light Station, including photo from 2000, at Maryland Historical Trust; Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Maryland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Maryland portal; National Register of Historic Places portal
The Craighill Channel Lower Range Front Light, named for William Price Craighill, was the first caisson lighthouse built in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA. [2] [3] First lit in 1873, the range marks the first leg of the maintained Craighill Channel from the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River into the Baltimore harbor and works in conjunction with the Craighill Channel Lower ...
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This light was constructed in 1885 as part of a range light pair to mark the then newly excavated Craighill Cutoff Channel. A modest iron skeleton tower was erected, pyramidal in form with a wooden, corrugated iron-sheathed square shaft at its center to house the lamp and the access stairway.
Sheboygan Lighthouse ; Location: North Point in Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Coordinates: approx.: Tower; Construction: Brick (first) Wood frame (second): Shape: Conical tower (first) Dwelling with lantern on roof (second): Light; First lit: 1839: Lens: reflectors; replaced with fifth order Fresnel lens: The Sheboygan Lighthouse stood on North Point in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Improvements to the harbor ...