1819: Congress appropriates $9,000 on March 3, for the construction of two lighthouses on North Point and one on Bodkin Point.
1820: Congress appropriates an additional $6,600 on May 15.
1822: Congress appropriates an additional $6,600.
1822: Two stone masonry lighthouses are built on the northern entrance to the Patapsco River to help guide mariners into the port of Baltimore.
1855: Keeper Elizabeth Riley makes $600/year.
1856: New illuminating apparatus is installed in the lighthouses.
1864: Repairs and renovations are made.
1867: Inspection report notes that both towers leak, as well as the roof on the keepers dwelling and needs to be repaired.
1870: Inspection report notes that the western tower is “no longer of service to navigation, I recommend that the lighting of it be discontinued.
1873: Both lights are decommissioned after the construction of Craighill Channel Range lights. The towers are left to deteriorate.
Sources:
1. Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board, various years.
2. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of Finances, various years.
3. Forgotten Beacons, Patrick Hornberger & Linda Turbyville, 1997.
