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Hall of Records St. John's College Campus, College Avenue Maryland Register of Historic Sites' and Landmarks 1970 Maryland Histo MHT CT-68 Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Maryland COUNTY: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Calvert INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRV, NqajB&R^ (Type all entries — complete applicable sections) /\ b- ;.>•*--*-</ f?, m Drum Point Lihtihouse AND/OR HISTORIC: Drum Point Light STREET AND NUMBER: South of Drum Point • ne«tr~jfeke._bfiach. at Rive r CITY OR TOWN: Drum Point COUNTY: Maryland 24 Calvert pno CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS ("Check One; C3 District Q Building CD Public Public Acquisition: n Occupied Yes: 1 1 Restricted D Site Jxl Structure n Private (| In Process J i Unoccupied1 1 j ' — ' CT1 Unrestricted D Object Both [~~| Being Considered ri j in Preservation . worki L-J in progress l No PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) [~| Agricultural | | Government D Park I I Transportation l~l Comments Q Commercial D Industrial |~l Private Residence S Other (Specify) Q Educational S Military I | Religious lighthouse [~1 Entertainment Q Museum [ | Scientific vacant————— OWNER'S NAME: PLEASE SEE CONTINUATION SHEET S H STREET AND NUMBER: PJ Cl TY OR TOWN: a. COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: n Hall of Records OJ M STREET AND NUMBER: < St. John's College Campus, College Avenue (D H Cl TY OR TOWN: ft Annapolis Maryland 24 TITLE OF SURVEY: Maryland Register of historic sites' and landmarks DATE OF SURVEY: 1970 Federal State County Loca DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Maryland Historical Trust STREET AND NUMBER: 94 College Avenue CITY OR TOWN: Annapolis Maryland MHT CT-68 (Check One) Q Excellent Good Fair Deteriorated Q Ruins Q Unexposed CONDITION (Check One) (Check One) Altered [ Unaltered Moved fv] Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ; The Drum Point Lighthouse is located at the southern end of Drum Point, Calvert County, Maryland, on the north point at the mouth of the Patuxent River. The hexagonal wooden structure is held up by iron supports, of the screw-pile type. An auger-like flange was bored into the soft Patuxent River bottom forming the support for the columnar iron base from which the weight of the entire light­ house, which is fastened to the column, is diffused. ,, Chesapeake Bay screw-pile lighthouse construction is typically hexagonal or square. "The Keeper's quarters, six sided and sheathed with weatherboards, is solidly built with mortised and tenoned joints, an hexagonal roof, two dormer windows. An unroofed rn open gallery encircles the lower story of the structure. rn On the top of the house is the cupola containing the light­ house lamp, .i v A small, second open gallery surrounds the cupola. The original light, described as a "fixed red" on an 187,7 chart, was replaced with an automatic light after World War II. The original light from the Drum Point Lighthouse is on exhibit TO at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Maryland. o Originally placed one-sixteenth of a nautical mile from shore, the water around the lighthouse gradually receded until, from 1965 on, the lighthouse has become nearly marooned on o the beach. z MHT CT-68 PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) O Pre-Columbian! D 16th Century O 18th Century 20th Century D 15th Century D 17th Century [5J 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1883 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Abor iginal [~~| Education D Political II Urban Planning O Prehistoric fjft Engineering n Religion/Phi. Other (Specify; O Historic [~~| Industry losophy tion I | Agriculture [% Invention [~~| Science (Xl Architecture |~~| Landscape [ | Sculpture D Art Architecture Q Social/H/i(Tiofi- | | Commerce | | Literature [ | Communications Q Military | | Conservation Q Music STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE "The Drum Point Lighthouse is one of screw-pile lighthouses on the Chesapeake BayT^ is light­ house is on its original site. Any lighthouse, and particularly an historic structure, is fast disappearing as navigational equipment due to the modern communications channels and satellite-related aids. I- The few remaining stand sentinel to honor "...those in u peril on the sea." HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE The Drum Point Lighthouse and other screw-pile light­ houses flourished on the Chesapeake Bay from the second half of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. They served as important navigational aids. Although the Drum Point Lighthouse has escaped demolition, its original light, which UJ required a resident attendant, was replaced with an automatic LJ light after World War II. oo The first screw-pile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay was erected in 1855 in Virginia waters. In the mid-nineteenth century these practical lighthouses began to replace light ships, which were the principal navigation aids, on the bay. The United States Lighthouse Board, a branch of the United States Treasury Department, built the Drum Point Lighthouse on five acres in the mouth of the Patuxent River. The State of Maryland conveyed the property on which the lighthouse (only) stands to the Federal government on Feb­ ruary 15, 1883. This transaction followed the provisions of an 1874 Maryland law that provides for the transfer of State property to become Federal property of the United States for the purpose of the erecting of lighthouses and other navigational aids . Alexander Mitchell (1780-1868) invented the screw-pile principle. His idea was first used in 1838 at the Malpin Sand Lighthouse at the mouth of the River Thames, England. SEE CONTINUATION SHEET MHT CT-68 Recorders : Paul A. Brinkman, Maryland Historical Trust, 94 College Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland. Nancy Miller, Historian, Maryland Historical Trust. Brewington, M. V. Chesapeake Bay A Pictorial History. Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1953. SEE CONTINUATION SHEET LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY C 1 DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY , OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATITUDE LONGITUDE r-.l-. Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds ' ' 1 NW ° o ... 0 o NE ° ' " ° 38 19 09 76 25 17 SE ° ° SW ° ' " ° APPROXIMATE A C R E AX5 E OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: • _^ _„__ cr> ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE: CODE COUNTY CODE rn m STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE H G: NAME AND Tl TLE: Mrs. Preston Parish, Keeper of the Maryland Register o ORGANl ZATION DATE H Maryland Historical Trust Jan. 20, 1972 STREET AND NUMBER: O 94 College Avenue •z. CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Annapolis Maryland 24 |i;ii;iilliili!jiiliiiiipiiip|iii;(:ili As the desi^iS»£e^d_ Staffi.Mi\son^Otf/teer for the Na­ I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional His/<Sw<c Pr^S^Wtion Act oiV^a6 (Public Law 89-665), ]H*ereby nominate tljjpipropi itftj for inclusion National Register. in the NatofOTal R^jjBter and certify H*a it has been evaluated\ac3cordinK^p^\kV^-iteTia iadl procedures set forth by th* i3j^i°na'R^"*^®rv ic^'\^e recommended Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of sigrm'ic^cce of this noK&ni&ion is: National ^H^TT^^eO^^ Local (g //./. / / "} 2 Name ( ) /IA#A4 cfe / ^0^(5-0^'^ ATTEST: fj 1 * Orlando Ridout IV Title State Liaison Officer (sfywjffiv^^ for Maryland Jteeper otT%.e*National Regis^ftr "^ Date January 21, 1972 Date /* ^ t ^} a J * CP n Q n 1 -O 8 7 MHT CT-68 Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Maryland NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY Calvert INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet) ————APR—r (Number all entries) Drum Point Lighthouse #4. OWNER OF PROPERTY continued Lighthouse structure, only, which is near the beac in the water: United States Coast Guard Fifth District Curtis Bay Baltimore, Maryland Code: 24 Contact: Commanding Officer Dept. of Aids to Baltimore Station Building #70 The approach property adjacent to the 1971 location of the structure: Contact: Chesapeake Group, Inc. 1712 I Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Code: 11 #8. SIGNIFICANCE continued The principle was later applied to bridges, viaducts and piers. The screw-pile principle is well suited to southern bodies of water and to soft bottoms. #9. REFERENCES continued Burgess, Robert H., Chesapeake Circle, Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1965. This Was the Chesapeake Bay. Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Publishing, 1963 Johnson, Arnold Burgess. "The Modern Light-House Service." Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890. Laws of Maryland. 1874. Chapter 193. Lee, Sidney (ed.) Dictionary of National Biography. XXXVIII. New York: MacMillian, 1894, 62-63. ions DRUM POINT LIGHTHOUSE LAT. 38 ° 19 f 09^ LONG. 76° 25'^r?" Hog P Fishing Pt Fdrm No ^0-300 ^ \Q-> UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY » NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS ___________TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS______ I NAME HISTORIC Drum Point Lighthouse AND/OR COMMON Drum Point Lighthouse | LOCATION Western shore of Back Creek, Calvert County Marine STREET & NUMBER Museum _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Solomons Island __ VICINITY OF First STATE CODE COUNTY CODE Maryland 24 Calvert 009 CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE —DISTRICT —PUBLIC —OCCUPIED _AGRICULTURE X-MUSEUM _BUILDING(S) .XPRIVATE —UNOCCUPIED —COMMERCIAL —PARK STRUCTURE —BOTH J£WORK IN PROGRESS —EDUCATIONAL —PRIVATE RESIDENCE _SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE —ENTERTAINMENT —RELIGIOUS —OBJECT _IN PROCESS —YES: RESTRICTED —GOVERNMENT —SCIENTIFIC —BEING CONSIDERED J&YES: UNRESTRICTED —INDUSTRIAL —TRANSPORTATION —NO —MILITARY —OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Calvert County Marine Museum, Ralph Eshelman, Director STREET & NUMBER P. 0. Box 281 CITY, TOWN STATE Somoinans VICINITY OF Maryland 20688 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE.
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