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Cedar Point Light | |
![]() Photograph at right of Cedar Point Lighthouse (1981) - View North, Southwest (front) and southeast elevations from Southern Maryland Online.
Cedar Point quickly eroded, hastened by local sand dredging. When the lighthouse was abandoned in 1928, by the Coast Guard, it stood on an island. The Navy purchased the lighthouse and remaining land from the Coast Guard and Arundel Corporation in 1958. They worked with historical groups to give the lighthouse a home. Unfortunately, Cedar Point lighthouse was too decrepit to save. In 1981, the bell was removed to the entrance to the Patuxent Naval Air Station. The cupola from Cedar Point is preserved in Lexington Park, MD, at the Naval Air Test and Evaluation Museum , and the sunburst pattern of wood slats, from under the eaves of the roofline, is at Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, MD. The rest of the lighthouse was torn down in the late 1990s. ![]() | |
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