Drum Point Lighthouse

Year Built

1883

Cost

$25,000

Type

Hexagonal house

Height

46 feet

Location

Relocated to the Calvert Marine Museum

Automated Year

1960

First Lit

1883

Lens Type

Fourth-order Fresnel lens

Fog Signal

None

Year Deactivated

1962

Color

White, red roof, black lantern

Last Keeper - Date

Russell H. Levenski (1962)

Description

It is now an exhibit at the Calvert Marine Museum.

Brief History

•  The light was commissioned August 20, 1883 and exhibited a fourth order Fresnel lens with prisms covering only the 270 degrees needed for visibility from the water.
•  In 1944, the lighthouse was equipped with electricity, though during the years of World War II the beacon was often extinguished.
•  By 1900, the bay only came three feet up on the pilings, and in the 1970s Drum Point Lighthouse was perched above dry land.
•  In 1962 the light was discontinued, its function handled by a lighted buoy. Neglect and vandalism, including several fires, caused considerable damage over the next decade and a half.
•  In 1974 the Calvert Historical Society was given the light, but not the site on which it stood.