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Holland Island is a marshy, rapidly eroding island in the Chesapeake Bay, in Dorchester County, Maryland, west of Salisbury. The island was once inhabited by watermen and farmers but has since been abandoned due to sinking of the land's surface associated with isostatic subsidence and sea level rise .
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The lighthouse was built in 1889 south of Holland Island, Maryland, a small fishing community. It was completed for $35,000, and was outfitted with a fourth-order Fresnel lens. In 1905 the Lighthouse Board considered turning the station into one of a pair of range lights, but this plan eventually fell through.
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Pages in category "Landforms of Dorchester County, Maryland" ... Holland Island; Hoopers Island This page was last edited on 23 March 2013, at 01:19 (UTC). ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of Maryland. It includes Islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Uninhabited islands of Maryland"
Ulman Owens (1878 - March 11, 1931) was an American lighthouse keeper.He is chiefly remembered today for the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. Owens became a lighthouse keeper in 1911, and served much of his career at the Holland Island Bar Light; little else is known of his life.
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