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Managing Organization:
Private owner.
Notes:
Since the 1970s ice has pushed against the lighthouse and caused it to tilt; the structure now has about a 20 degree list. In 1996 the Coast Guard announced plans to destroy the structure, but public complaints and opposition from the Maryland Historical Trust stopped that action. In 2008 the government sold the lighthouse at auction for $80,000. The new owner has been identified only as AFB, Inc. of Bear, Del. The lighthouse is on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List. Tower Height: 35 Height of Focal Plane: 54 Description of Tower: Brown, cast iron Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.
This light is operational
Earlier Towers?
1838: Wooden tower; 1866: Screwpile structure (destroyed by ice). Date Established: 1838 Date Present Tower Built: 1882 Optics: 1882: Fourth order Fresnel lens; now 250 mm. Current Use: Active aid to navigation Open To Public? No. Directions:
Accessible by boat only. Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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