Type:
Year Established:
1848
Existing:
No
Source:
LL-1879
Download:
185A_Greenbury_PT_Annap_MD_1885_CG2.jpg (3.13 MB)
File Type:
jpg (image/jpeg)
Photo Date:
1885.08
Photo Credit:
Major Jared A. Smith
Photo Courtesy of:
US Lighthouse Society
Collection / Donor:
LOCATION
Location:
Entrance to Severn River MD
Latitude:
38 58.21'
Longitude:
76 27.22'
U.S. State:
Maryland
Country:
United States
OWNER & ACCESS
Open to Public:
No
STRUCTURE
Year Discontinued:
1891
Disposition:
Destroyed
Year Tower Established:
1848
Tower Construction Material:
Wood
Height of light above mean high water, in feet:
40 Feet above water
Height, in feet, from base of structure to center of lantern:
35 feet
Fog Signal Building?:
No
Keeper's Quarters?:
No
Year Keeper's Quarters:
1848
OPTICS
Original Optic Type:
9 Reflectors replaced by 6th order Fresnel
Year Original Lens Installed:
1855
Private Aid:
No
USCG Access to Optics:
No
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Nov 01, 2018
Maryland's original Greenbury Point Light Station was constructed in 1849 to mark the entrance to the Annapolis Harbor. In 1878, the Lighthouse Board reported, “The light, in its present position, is of little use, and is so small that it can hardly be distinguished from the lights of the Naval Academy and the harbor of Annapolis.” The structure was also in need of extensive repairs and the land was quickly eroding around the house. Starting in 1879, the Lighthouse Board recommended an appropriation of $25,000 to build a lighthouse at the end of the shoal at Greenbury Point at the entrance to the Severn River, MD to replace the existing lighthouse on the point.
Use of the original lighthouse was discontinued on this date in 1891. Later in 1891 this tower destroyed and replaced by Greenbury Point Shoal Screwpile Lighthouse.