Drum Point Lighthouse at Solomons Island Maryland.
Drum point is one of only three remaining "Screw Pile" type lights that once served the Chesapeake Bay. Drum point was decommissioned in 1962 by the U.S. Coast Guard and began to fall victim to vandals. In 1975 the lighthouse was picked up and moved to Solomons Island to the Calvert Marine Museum.

Piney Point Lighthouse, located in St. Mary's County on Maryland's southern shore, was built in 1836. It stands just 14 miles up the Potomac River from the Chesapeake Bay. The light operated from 1836 till 1964 when it was decommissioned by the U.S. Coast Guard. The lighthouse served river navigators through the civil war, the steamboat era and both world wars.

The Piney Point Light Stack has walls that range from a thickness of 10 feet at the base to 3 feet at the top.

Cove Point Lighthouse, located on Maryland's Southern Shore continues to illuminate the edges of the Chesapeake Bay for mariners traveling from the Atlantic Ocean to the Baltimore Harbor.
The light is still operated by the U.S. Coast Guard but is owned by the Calvert Marine Museum. Although the attraction is surrounded by chain link fence, it is open to the public from 1 - 4 in the summer.

The "new" Cape Henry Lighthouse was put into service on December 15, 1881 after the old light, that sits just 360 feet west was found to be unstable. The New Cape henry Lighthouse is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard and the United States Army. The new light was built at a cost of $75,000 versus $17,700 for the old light just a hundred years before.

The twin lights of Cape Henry sit very near to the first landing of the settlers of Jamestown. Captain Newport was sent in 1607 with three ships by the Virginia Company of London to explore and establish a new English colony. Unfortunately for the English, the Native Americans who already occupied the land had other ideas. Captain Newport and hiis crew erected a cross very near to this spot commemorating the landing. The cross can still be seen and is maintained by the national park service.

Point Lookout Lighhouse is said to be one of the most haunted places in the country. This lighthouse was used as a federal prison camp and hospital during the civil war. Nearly 4000 confederate troops and 500 guards died between 1863 and 1865 at the camp. Mostly from exposure. Soldiers were buried near the lighthouse and gravesites were often exposed due to the rise and fall of the tides. Point Lookout Lighhouse sits at the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River.

Cove Point Lighthouse was built in 1828 to mark the shoal that extends outwards toward the shipping channel. A total of four acres was purchased at a cost of $300. Today only two acres remain (the other two were given to the liquid natural gas terminal for a safety zone). The light tower and the keeper's house were constructed of locally manufactured brick. The cost of the entire project was $2000.

On December 14, 1881, the light source was removed from the original Cape Henry Lighthouse and placed in the newly constructed iron tower. Keeper Jay D. Edwards transferred his attention to the iron structure the following day, when the new light, with a focal plane of 157 feet and a range of 18 ¾ miles, was exhibited for the first time. In one day, the old tower transitioned from a lighthouse to an historic landmark.

The two towers continue to stand side-by-side on the southerly Cape of Chesapeake Bay, one of the most important shipping channels in the nation. The vital ports of Norfolk, Newport News, Baltimore and Washington are all accessed through the Chesapeake, and the Cape Henry lighthouses have provided over two hundred years of uninterrupted aid to navigation.

Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, located at Fort Story Virginia is the oldest lighthouse in America. Commissioned to be built by George Washington in 1792, the old Cape Henry Light became the first infrastructure for the public good to be built by the "new" government. Decommissioned in 1881, the old light still serves as a day marker for mariners off the Virginia Coast.