Hooper Strait Light
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, between Hooper and Bloodsworth Islands in Dorchester County and at the entrance to Tangier Sound, it is now an exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland.
Undated photograph of Hooper Strait Light (USCG) | |
| Location | Originally in Hooper Strait north of Bloodsworth Island in the Chesapeake Bay; relocated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum |
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| Coordinates | 38.2267°N 76.0756°W (original); 38.7875°N 76.2192°W (current) |
| Tower | |
| Foundation | screw-pile |
| Construction | cast-iron/wood |
| Automated | 1954 |
| Shape | hexagonal house |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1867 |
| Deactivated | 1966 |
| Lens | fifth-order Fresnel lens |
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