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off Ragged Point in the Potomac River between Piney Point Light and St. Clements Island Coordinates 38°09′16″N 76°36′05″W / 38.1544°N 76.6014°W / 38.1544; -76
The new channels were named after William Craighill, a lighthouse board member who supervised the surveys for the excavation. The first section of channel, starting from where Baltimore Light now stands, headed almost due north before turning into the Patapsco River, and new range lights were required to make it usable at night. [2]
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.
Perhaps as many as 100 spider-like, cottage-type (1½-storey wooden dwelling) screwpile lighthouses were built throughout the Carolina sounds, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, along the Gulf of Mexico, at least two in Long Island Sound and one even at Maumee Bay (1855), Lake Erie, Ohio. Few survive to this day; many were replaced with caisson-type ...
York Spit 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. 152. ISBN 9780801815485
The Sands Point Lighthouse is located in the Incorporated Village of Sands Point in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The fourth lighthouse to be established on Long Island, this 1809 stone tower was built by an American Revolutionary War veteran who stayed on as its ...
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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