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That’s the simple origin story of how the McNallys came to own the 19th-century Smith Point Lighthouse, which sits about 1,135 miles away in the Chesapeake Bay, a few miles off the coast of ...

Built in 1792, the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse stood guard over the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay for almost 90 years before the New Cape Henry lighthouse replaced it in 1881. Learn about the ...

It was manned by the Coast Guard until 1986 when it became the last lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay to be fully automated. It is the only screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay still in its ...