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Managing Organization:
Piney Point Lighthouse Museum
Telephone:
301-769-2222
Website: http://www.co.saint-marys.md.us/recreate/museums/ppl.asp
Contact Address Information:
c/o St. Clement’s Island-Potomac River Museum
38370 Point Breeze Road
Colton’s Point
Maryland,
20626,
United States
Notes:
This lighthouse was called the "Lighthouse of Presidents" because presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Monroe all visited here. Today the lighthouse is part of a six-acre park. Tower Height: 30 Height of Focal Plane: 34 Description of Tower: White, conical brick tower.
This light is not operational
Other Buildings?
1836 2.5 story keeper's house (altered), oil house, garage, cottage. Date Established: 1836 Date Present Tower Built: 1836 Date Deactivated: 1964 Date Automated: 1939 Optics: 18??: Fourth order Fresnel lens (removed). Current Use: Attraction in park. Open To Public? Grounds only. Museum?
A 1950 Coast Guard house close by houses a museum and gift shop and is open 12-5 Friday through Monday, May through October. Directions:
The park and light station, located at the end of Lighthouse Road off MD 249, are open seven days a week during summer months, from sunrise to sunset. Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places Keepers: William Henry Suter (1835-1837), Philip Clark (1837-1840), Henry C. Heard (1840-1844), Charlotte Suter (1844-1846), William B. Taylor (1846-1849), John N. Nuthall (1849-1850), Susan Nuthall (1850-1861), Robert Marshall (1861-1865), Henry Stainbrice (1865-1869), Noah Wilson (1869-1873), Elizabeth Wilson (1873-1877), Helen Tune (1877-1883), William Costin (1883-1912), George Costin (1912), Loch Humphries (1912-1931), William Yeatman (1931-1933), William Goesbey (1933-?)
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