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frostbite, Cornwell said that "should there be another house erected, or a boat placed in the site of the old one, Capt. Conway and myself will be ready to take charge of it" Lighthouse tenders sent after the sunken house located it some five miles (8 km) south of the strait and were able to salvage the lens, lamp, and fog bell.
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A new light was erected at the same location in 1879, another screw-pile light of the then typical hexagonal form, with the house being prefabricated at the
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444:Hooper Strait Lighthouse
410:de Gast, Robert (1973).
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404:Hooper Strait Lighthouse
395:Hooper Strait Lighthouse
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800:Upper Cedar Point Light
755:Sandy Point Shoal Light
710:Lower Cedar Point Light
570:Blakistone Island Light
61:more precise citations.
760:Seven Foot Knoll Light
575:Bloody Point Bar Light
565:Baltimore Harbor Light
323:St. Michaels, Maryland
303:screw-pile lighthouses
695:Lazaretto Point Light
665:Greenbury Point Light
655:Fort Washington Light
640:Fishing Battery Light
765:Sharkfin Shoal Light
740:Point No Point Light
715:Maryland Point Light
600:Cobb Point Bar Light
590:Choptank River Light
775:Solomons Lump Light
770:Sharps Island Light
745:Pooles Island Light
735:Point Lookout Light
720:Mathias Point Light
700:Leading Point Light
685:Hooper Strait Light
680:Hooper Island Light
670:Hawkins Point Light
605:Concord Point Light
580:Bodkin Island Light
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660:Great Shoals Light
650:Fort Carroll Light
503:Engineering portal
449:2011-04-05 at the
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