Historic Baltimore Lighthouse
At the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay’s Baltimore channel stands an historic lighthouse. Operating by 1908, the light tower went through numerous set-backs during it’s construction. The sea floor in the area contains over 50 feet of liquid mud, making the engineer’s job rather difficult. In the end the caisson designed structure was 82 feet below sea level, a record for it’s time. By 1923, the building on the bay was automated and the inhabitant (or keeper) was moved to another location.
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In May 1964 the light was converted to run off power supplied by a small atomic reactor, making it the first nuclear-powered lighthouse in the world. This experiment only lasted a year and the concept was not pursued further.
The lighthouse appears to be in operation today, in some capacity, as the picture below shows someone ascending it’s impressive stairs. The Sandy Point Shoal Lighthouse stands nearby.
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