• The Dutch Gap Canal Lights were built to mark the ends of Dutch Gap Canal, now called Dutch Gap Cutoff, which is a 3⁄4 nautical mile (1.4 km; 0.86 mi)...
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  • Lighthouse". Chesapeake Chapter U.S.L.H.S. Retrieved October 17, 2017. "Dutch Gap Canal Lights". Chesapeake Chapter U.S.L.H.S. Retrieved October 17, 2017. "Great...
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    Comfort and New Point Comfort are two different locations, not two different lights on the same spot.) Burroughs's involvement with New Point Comfort, however...
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    at the mouth of the Potomac River, has been marked by a succession of lights, having been served by three towers, three lightships, a screw-pile lighthouse...
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    surrounded by rip rap to protect it from ice. As with other screw-pile lights in the bay, the house was removed in 1961 and an automated light set upon...
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    Bay and guide ships to the Great Machipongo Inlet. There have been two lights at Hog Island, one of the Virginia Barrier Islands located southeast of...
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    light is also referred to as a "Texas Tower", one of six nearly identical lights on the East Coast which were built at the time. At some point the former...
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    characteristic changed to red in order to make it more visible against the bridge's lights. This light was among a group offered to nonprofit groups under the National...
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    screw-pile foundation. This light has several unusual features for such lights in the bay area, most notably the diamond-shaped panes in the lantern and...
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    in the country; it was replaced in 1859 by the first of two screw-pile lights, a square house which survived until 1884. In that year the decrepit structure...
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    here in 1855, replacing a daybeacon placed the previous year. Two other lights, those at Deepwater Shoals and Point of Shoals, were erected at the same...
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    constructed in 1833 by John Donahoo and is the only one of his thirteen lights outside of Maryland. The island was plagued with erosion, and by 1923 four...
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    removal in 1967 as part of the general program of decommissioning screw pile lights in the bay. "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Virginia"...
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    was constructed shortly before the Civil War, and like the other Virginia lights, it was put out of commission by the Confederate forces. It was reactivated...
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    performed an amphibious landing on the northern and southern edges of the gap made in the dyke. During these landings, only six people remained in the...
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