Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse Project

Listing And Photographs Of The Lights


 

The New and Old Cape Henry Lights

 

Chesapeake Bay Lighthouses and Lightships Visited

The following listing of all remaining Chesapeake Bay Lights is ordered from the north of the Bay, heading south. Non-Bay lights are listed separately. All are linked to photographs and descriptions.

    Maryland
  1. Concord Point (cir. 1838)
  2. Fishing Battery (cir. 1853)
  3. Turkey Point (cir. 1832)
  4. Pooles Island (cir. 1825)
  5. Seven Foot Knoll (cir. 1855, moved to Inner Harbor in Baltimore)
  6. Lightship Chesapeake, LV 116 / WAL 538 (cir. 1930, moved to Inner Harbour in Baltimore)
  7. Fort Carroll (cir. 1854)
  8. Craighill Channel Lower Range Light - Rear (cir. 1873)
  9. Craighill Channel Lower Range Light - Front (cir. 1873)
  10. Craighill Channel Upper Range Light - Rear (cir. 1886)
  11. Craighill Channel Upper Range Light - Front (cir. 1886)
  12. Baltimore Light (cir. 1908)
  13. Sandy Point (cir. 1883)
  14. Thomas Point Shoal (cir. 1875)
  15. Bloody Point Bar (cir. 1882)
  16. Hooper Strait (cir. 1880, moved to the Chesapeake Maritime Museum in St. Michaels)
  17. Sharps Island
  18. (cir. 1882)
  19. Cove Point
  20. (cir. 1828)
  21. Drum Point (cir. 1883, moved to the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons)
  22. Hooper Island
  23. (cir. 1902)
  24. Point No Point (cir. 1905)
  25. Solomons Lump (cir. 1895)
  26. Fort Washington
  27. (cir. 1857)
  28. Piney Point
  29. (cir. 1836)
  30. Point Lookout
  31. (cir. 1830)

    Virginia
  32. Jones Point
  33. (cir. 1856)
  34. Smith Point (cir. 1897)
  35. Wolf Trap (cir. 1894)
  36. New Point Comfort (cir. 1804)
  37. Thimble Shoals (cir. 1914)
  38. Old Point Comfort (cir. 1802)
  39. Newport News Middle Ground (cir. 1891)
  40. Old Cape Henry (cir. 1792)
  41. New Cape Henry (cir. 1881)
  42. Cape Charles (cir. 1895)

Other Area Lighthouses and Lightships

  • Delaware Breakwater (cir. 1885)
  • Harbor of Refuge (South) Breakwater (cir. 1926)
  • Lightship Overfalls, LV 118 / WAL 539 (cir. 1938)
  • Fenwick Island Lighthouse (cir. 1858)
  • Assateague Lighthouse (cir. 1867)
  • Lightship Portsmouth, LV 101 / WAL 524 (cir. 1916)
  • Chesapeake Light Tower (cir. 1965)


  • Replica - Lazaretto Point Lighthouse (original cir. 1831, replica 1985)
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