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Maryland’s Lighthouses (Images of America: Maryland)

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In Colonial times, as the Chesapeake Bay and larger rivers was necessary shipping channels, the desire arose to mark Maryland’s dangerous shoals and waterways. Lighthouses sprang up all through the 1800s and early 1900s, including wood-framed cottages placed upon screw pile foundations that stood offshore within the unforgiving waters. These types of unique structures didn’t live on, lost tragically to ice that also from time to time claimed the lives of the keepers who faithfully tended them and rescued mariners in trouble. With the appearance of electricity and GPS, many beacons succumbed to vandalism and neglect, leaving a fraction remaining.

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