Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse Md #1
by Skip Willits
Title
Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse Md #1
Artist
Skip Willits
Medium
Photograph - Epson Lustre Paper
Description
SEVENFOOT KNOLL LIGHTHOUSE
Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore�s Inner Harbor, Maryland
Originally located on the Craighill Channel Upper Range at the mouth of the Patapsco River, this round screw pile lighthouse was built in eight feet of water in 1855 for just over $30,000. It presently can be toured in Baltimore�s Inner Harbor district fully restored. The original plans for a light at this location called for a screw pile house similar to that which as erected at Brandywine Shoal in the Delaware Bay. The house was to be 40 feet above the high-water mark, utilize a third-order Fresnel lens, and not is merely a local accommodation but a principle marker for the foreign shipping entering and leaving the port of Baltimore.
In May 1854, the Lighthouse Board awarded the contract to a Mr. Murray and Mr. Hazelhurst of Baltimore to construct the light. The 42-foot-high round screw pile was finished in 1855 and furnished with only a fourth-order Fresnel lens. Seven-Foot Knoll Lighthouse is unique in that it is the only round screw pile and the only cast-iron screw pile on the bay.
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December 29th, 2015
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