1867: Congress appropriates $10,000 to construct a screwpile lighthouse at Somers Cove, MD on March 2. 1867: Somers Cove Lighthouse, a square screwpile, is completed. 1880: Somers Cove Lighthouse is repainted. 1891: Four of the diagonal girders are repaired. 1898: Keeper William Insley is seriously injured on December 22. 1899: New model fifth-order lamps are …
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On March 2, 1867, Congress appropriated $10,000 to construct a lighthouse to mark the entrance to the Little Annemessex River at Crisfield, MD., situated just north of the Virginia line on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. According to the U.S. Lighthouse Board, it should be “a screwpile structure of the least expensive class.” …
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