Annapolis

Keep The Light Shining at Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse

History and How You Can Help

In 1823, William Bedford Barney, a Naval officer serving as a federal representative at the booming port of Baltimore, wrote to Washington about the situation just south of Annapolis where shipping was all-too-frequently disrupted by a poorly marked, hard-packed shoal reaching more than a mile from shore and into the busy shipping lanes. 

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