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Lighthouse
Hog Island Light
1948 photograph of Hog Island Light (1896 tower) (USCG)
fixed white light (first) flashing white every 45 seconds (second)
The Hog Island Light was a lighthouse roughly marking its eponymous island, and thus the north side of the Great Machipongo Inlet on the Virginia coast. Originally, no light existed between Cape Henlopen, Delaware and Cape Charles. In 1830 the United States Congress appropriated money for a coastal beacon in the general vicinity of Chincoteague Island. The following year, the Collector of Customs in Norfolk selected Assateague Island.
In 1827 the first shipment of sweet potatoes from farmers on the Eastern Shore was sent to New York City aboard the schooner Providence under the command of Captain Lewis Matthews from Thomas's Wharf on the Machipongo River. One of the few deep-water ports on the sea side of the Delmarva Peninsula, vessels traveling between Norfolk and New York City began frequenting Thomas's Wharf to load produce during the growing season.[1] So in 1853 another lighthouse was erected twenty miles north of Cape Charles at Hog Island to light the remaining section of coastline between the Assateague Light and the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and guide ships to the Great Machipongo Inlet.
The HogIslandLight was a lighthouse roughly marking its eponymous island, and thus the north side of the Great Machipongo Inlet on the Virginia coast...
toppled into the ocean on July 2, 1927. Both the Cape Charles light and the HogIslandLight were electrified in 1933, completing the electrification of...
HogIsland Shoal Light, built in 1901, is a sparkplug lighthouse on a shoal off of HogIsland, Rhode Island. It is located about 600 feet (180 m) southeast...
Virginia, along with the HogIslandLight. Origin of the HogIsland Sheep, and the HogIsland Fig. The last permanent residents of Hog evacuated after an unnamed...
from the Sapelo Island Visitors Center in McIntosh County, Georgia, a seven-mile (11 km), twenty-minute trip. It is the site of Hog Hammock, the last...
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October 17, 2017. "Name: HogIslandLight (VA)". Lighthouse Digest. Retrieved October 18, 2017. Jeremy D'Entremont. "HogIsland's First Order Lens Shines...
The Watts IslandLight was a historic lighthouse located near Watts Island in the Chesapeake Bay. It was the only lighthouse built by John Donahoo outside...
after concern arose about the stability of the first. Both towers of the light station were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970. The first...
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island separated from the mainline by a narrow passage named Deep Creek. A dispute with the owner of the island over the portion needed for the light...
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