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    Retrieved May 1, 2012. Pooles Island Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com Pooles Island Light and Pooles Island Bar Light from Chesapeake Chapter...
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    southeast of the southern tip of Gunpowder Neck. The Pooles Island Light was built on it. Pooles Island was used for bombing practice from 1918 through the...
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  • the Pooles Island Light and the oldest still active is the Cove Point Light. The tallest extant tower is the Craighill Channel Lower Range Rear Light. If...
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    The Baltimore Harbor Light, officially Baltimore Light and historically Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse is a privately owned caisson lighthouse in the Chesapeake...
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    The Hooper Island Light is a lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay, west of Middle Hooper Island in Maryland. The initial request of a light at this site was...
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    The Sharps Island Light is the third lighthouse to stand nearly 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest from the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake...
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    Wood Island Light is an active lighthouse on the eastern edge of Wood Island in Saco Bay, on the southern coast of Maine. The light is just outside the...
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  • The Clay Island Light was a historic lighthouse located on Clay Island at the mouth of the Nanticoke River on the Chesapeake Bay. Constructed in 1832...
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  • The Janes Island Light was a screw-pile lighthouse located near Crisfield in the U.S. state of Maryland. Twice destroyed by ice, it was replaced in 1935...
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    The Bodkin Island Light (or Bodkin Point Light) was a lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay, United States, the first erected in Maryland. The lighthouse was...
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  • Pooles Island Light (1825) Concord Point Light (1827) Cove Point Light (1828) Point Lookout Light (1830) Turkey Point Light (1833) Piney Point Light (1836)...
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    The Seven Foot Knoll Light was built in 1855 and is the oldest screw-pile lighthouse in Maryland. It was located atop Seven Foot Knoll in the Chesapeake...
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    The Blackistone Island Light was a lighthouse located on what is now St. Clement's Island on the Potomac River in Maryland. It is best known as the target...
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    keeper's house with a light tower on it was constructed in 1854. At the time, the light keeper was the only resident of the artificial island. The fort was never...
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  • Japan Poole's Corner Provincial Park, a provincial park in Canada Pooles Island Light, a lighthouse in Maryland, United States USS Poole (DE-151), a U...
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    Bloody Point Bar Light is an early sparkplug lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay near Kent Island, Maryland. Although a light at this location was first...
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  • The Triton Light is a navigational beacon on the seawall of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where the Severn River meets Spa Creek...
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    Hooper Strait Light is one of four surviving Chesapeake Bay screw-pile lighthouses in the U.S. state of Maryland. Originally located in Hooper Strait...
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  • The Maryland Point Light was a screw-pile lighthouse located in the Potomac River. A light was first proposed for the shoal at Maryland Point in 1887...
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    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...
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    Block Island Southeast Light is a lighthouse located on Mohegan Bluffs at the southeastern corner of Block Island, Rhode Island. It was designated a U...
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  • Great Shoals Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Wicomico River. This light was constructed to mark a narrow channel...
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  • Fog Point Light was a historic lighthouse located at Fog Point, the northwestern tip of Smith Island, Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay. This light was constructed...
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    The Upper Cedar Point Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in the Potomac River in Maryland. It was first lit in 1867 and served, except for a brief period...
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    The Ragged Point Light was a screw-pile lighthouse located in the Potomac River. It was the last lighthouse built in Maryland waters and the last built...
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    a skeleton tower. The ferry to Tangier Island passes its remains. On October 26, 2021, the remains of the light collapsed during a storm. 1634–1699: McCusker...
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    The Holland Island Bar Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay which existed from 1889 to 1960. It is remembered for the unexplained death...
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    Point Light was the name of two lighthouses in the Chesapeake Bay, both located at the mouth of the Severn River in Annapolis, Maryland. The first light on...
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    Fort Washington Light is a lighthouse located on the banks of the Potomac River on the grounds of its namesake fort. There has been a lighthouse on the...
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    The Three Mile Island accident plays a pivotal role in Heat and Light, a 2016 novel by Jennifer Haigh. Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a four-part docuseries...
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