Hooper Strait Light


	Caption	Undated photograph of Hooper Strait Light (USCG)
	Location	originally in Hooper Strait north of Bloodsworth Island in the Chesapeake Bay relocated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
	Coordinates	(original)<br> (current)
	Yearlit	1867
	Automated	1954
	Yeardeactivated	1966
	Foundation	Screw-pile
	Construction	Cast-iron / Wood
	Shape	hexagonal house
	Lens	fifth-order Fresnel Lens
	Status	moved to museum

Hooper Strait Light is one of three surviving Chesapeake Bay Screw-pile Lighthouse s. Originally located in Hooper Strait at the entrance to Tangier Sound, it is now an exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland .

REFERENCES

Hooper Strait Lighthouse , from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society

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