THE LIGHT KEEPER AND FAMILY  detail
Detail of Greenbury Point Lighthouse watercolor by Thomas A Needham
 
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Greenbury Point Lighthouse, Annapolis, Maryland c. 1849 – image: 16 x 12
 
From 1849 until 1934 the Greenbury Point Lighthouse sat on the banks of the Severn River directly across from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A unique feature of the building was its wood-shingled, octagonal tower rising through the center of the roof.