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Ice at the Lighthouse!: We took our first trip of the year out to the lighthouse on February 20th to see how she was faring with this harsh and snowy winter. We were delighted to find a little bit of ice and snow remaining on the rip-rap boulders...

White House Designates U.S. Lighthouse Society a “Preserve America Steward”: On January 12, 2009, First Lady Laura Bush, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Lynn Scarlett and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Chairman John L Nau, III announced that the United States Lighthouse Society was...

Wedding Bells At Lighthouse: On July 4 th, Sally Ward and Phillip Walker, both of Annapolis, exchanged their wedding vows at the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse...

Amazing Lighthouse Replica: Gary Gillette, a model-making hobbyist who specializes in replicas of historic buildings, spent over 300 hours making an amazingly authentic 1/48 th scale model of Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse...

National Archives Photograph 26-LG-25-54; photo by Major Jared Smith, 18 August 1885.
The images in this section were obtained from the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office website. Click here to see the images.
The images in this section were taken by David Harp, a famed and prize-winning photographer of the Chesapeake Bay area. The photographs were taken in the spring of 1986, just prior to the lighthouse being automated and unmanned. Included in the collection are photographs of the last Fresnel lens before it was removed and the last U.S.C.G. lighthouse keeper stationed at the lighthouse, Petty Officer Remaly. Click here to see the images.
The images in this section show Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse during some severe winters, especially the icy winter of 1976-77. Click here to see the images.