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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...

The following photographs were taken during an inspection and assessment visit of the lighthouse on April 29-30, 2004. All photographs by Henry Gonzalez unless noted.
Ladder from landing platform to storage platform area (which was destroyed by Hurricane Isabel in 2003)
View of railing, deck, and a set of boat davits
Hatch through main deck to access storage and docking platforms
Exterior view of “privy”
Current Marine Rotating Beacon
(Vega) VRB-25
Kitchen on main floor
“Equipment” room on main floor. Has original tongue-in-groove boards on walls, floor, and ceiling; currently used as storage area by Coast Guard.
Bathroom on main floor
One of two main rooms on main floor, as entering from kitchen; door in rear leads to bathroom. These two rooms are carpeted over asbestos tiles and the walls and ceiling are covered with plywood sheets. We discovered that the original tongue-in-groove boards are underneath the plywood.
Fixture on ceiling of second room on main deck indicative of old pot belly stove.
One of two large open rooms on 2nd deck; notice the original floor
Cullen Chambers, lead preservationist, scrapes base of lens pedestal to determine original color
Coast Guardsmen from Activities Baltimore stand by their automation equipment on the 2nd deck
From left to right: Cullen Chambers, lead preservationist; Anne Puppa, Vice President for Preservation, Chesapeake Chapter, US Lighthouse Society; Henry Gonzalez, Vice President for East Coast Operations, US Lighthouse Society; Sandy Clunies, Historian, Chesapeake Chapter; Bob Trapani, President, Delaware River & Bay Lighthouse Foundation
Photograph by Preston Burrows, US Coast Guard