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Paperback Maryland's Lighthouses Book
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ISBN: 073855345X

ISBN13: 9780738553450

Maryland's Lighthouses

(Part of the Images of America: Maryland Series)

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In Colonial times, as the Chesapeake Bay and larger rivers became vital shipping channels, the need arose to mark Maryland's dangerous shoals and waterways. Lighthouses sprang up throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, including wood-framed cottages placed upon screw pile foundations that stood offshore in the unforgiving waters. Most of these unique structures did not survive, lost tragically to ice that also occasionally claimed the lives of the keepers...

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