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Hooper Island Again Offered Up for Adoption

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Hooper Island Lighthouse looks different today ...
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For the second time in its history, Maryland’s Hooper Island Lighthouse was offered up for adoption by the General Services Administration under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act (NHLPA).

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In 2009, also under the NHLPA, the 1902 tower was conveyed to the U. S. Lighthouse Society which recently became amenable to an ownership reversion of the tower, in hopes that a new steward could be found for the lighthouse that sits near Middle Hooper Island in the Chesapeake Bay near Hoopersville, Maryland.

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The Hooper Island Lighthouse is one of only a small number of United States lighthouses that rests atop a caisson foundation that was sunk using the pneumatic process. The lighthouse once housed a 4th order Fresnel lens that had been manufactured in 1888 by F. Barbier & Co. of Paris, France. However, in 1976, a number of years after the lighthouse had been automated and its keepers removed, it was discovered that the lens had been stolen.

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Kenneth H. Dickerson, Sr., shown here in his U.S. ...


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The foundation of the Hooper Island Lighthouse at ...


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This story appeared in the May/Jun 2017 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.

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