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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.
Directions:
The park, located off MD 249, and lighthouse station 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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