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In Baltimore: Let There Be Light

ShareHere, ladies and gentlemen, is Baltimore’s historic Seven Foot Knoll, the oldest surviving screwpile lighthouse in the United States, and the only one of this type. A screw-pile lighthouse is one which stands on piles that are screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms. The Seven Foot Knoll lighthouse was built in1856, and [...]