National Lighthouse Day Dance Contest
This is a call to all our friends all around the U.S to take part in a fun and unique event. The idea behind this is that we’re trying to foster a feeling of community among lighthouse groups, to celebrate what lighthouses mean to all of us, and to simply have fun.
We’d like people to all dance to the same song, during the same time period. Ideally, it should be near a lighthouse, although it doesn’t have to be.
Special Virtual Event – Linda Osborne Cynowa, author of “Lighthouses of the North Atlantic Coast”
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Drum Point Lighthouse
In 1853 Lieutenant A. M. Pennock, of the U,S, Lighthouse Board, filed a report on his survey of Chesapeake Bay. He commented that "a small light should be placed on Drum Point, inside of the Patuxent River." Work finally began on the lighthouse on July 17, 1883. The ten-inch-diameter, wrought-iron piles, made by the Allentown Rolling Mills of Philadelphia, were fitted with three foot wide auger flanges. Each of the piles were laboriously hand-bored into the bottom of the Patuxent River like giant screws.
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