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COVE POINT LIGHTHOUSE: SENTINEL on CALVERT's CLIFFS by Richard Quarterly Newsletter of the CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM Vol. 22 - No. 4 WINTER 1997/1998 COVE POINT LIGHTHOUSE: SENTINEL ON CALVERT'S CLIFFS By Richard /. Dodds, Curator of Maritime History 1828, Cove Point is the fifth oldest extant lighthouse on Cove Point Light Chesapeake Bay after Old Cape Henry (1791), Old Point Comfort This is a stationary light on Cove Point, and (1802), New Point Comfort (1804), Pooles Island (1825), and elevated 40 feet above the tide. It is intended Concord Point (1827). It is located four miles north of the Patuxent to lead vessels clear of the long low point on River on a prominent sandy spit of land projecting into the Chesapeake. which it stands, dose to which are 7 fathoms The United States government purchased two parcels of land water. It also serves to guide vessels clear of from Dorcas Gray Bourne on June 12, 1828, for $300.00 — one of Cedar Point, and such as are bound into the two acres and seventy-two square perches, which became the Patuxent River. The American Pharos, or site of the lighthouse proper, and the other of two acres intended for a garden plot. (This latter property was sold in 1926.) Dorcas Light-House Guide, Robert Mills, 1832. Bourne had inherited part of what was once Eltonhead Manor, originally surveyed in 1652 for Edward Eltonhead and containing Introduction five thousand acres. Prior to purchasing the property at Cove With the approach of 1998, marking 170 years in the history Point, the U. S. Congress appropriated $6,000.00 in 1825 to build of Cove Point Lighthouse, and with the efforts currently under a lighthouse at Cedar Point, south of the Patuxent River, but the way to transfer the property from the U. S. Coast Guard to Calvert Lighthouse Board later changed its mind and decided that a light County government, this may be an appropriate moment to look at Cove Point would be better. A new appropriation was made in back at the long and varied history of Cove Point Light Station, 1828 for $5,685.00. Maryland's oldest continuously operating light station. Built in The contract for construction was awarded to John Donaho of Havre de Grace, a prolific lighthouse builder who built twelve of the first seventeen lighthouses in Maryland, including Bodkin Island Lighthouse (1822), the first lighthouse in operation in Maryland. The government's representative was William B. Barney, District Naval Officer and Superintendent of Lighthouses and the son of naval hero Commodore Joshua Barney. Specifications called for a light tower, forty feet in height, to be built of either whitewashed brick or stone — brick was chosen, making this among the first brick lighthouse towers built in the United States. The one-and-a-half story dwelling house would also be of brick, twenty feet by thirty-four feet, containing two rooms on the first floor with an entry between. Specifications also required an attached kitchen wing fourteen by twelve feet, a privy, and a well or cistern (a cistern was in fact used for many years, fed by rainwater runoff from the roof of the house and kitchen). A separate contract was signed in 1828 with Cove Point Light Station in the J980s> Between'. James Geddes of Baltimore to furnish the lighting the two buildings in the lower part afttiGpkture is the old Maritime Exchange Signal Tower, since apparatus for $550.00. This consisted of thirteen torn clowns Courtesy,-U.5. Coast Guard. (Continued on Page 6) 2 Bugeye Times ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL BUGEYE BALL On September 13, the Calvert Marine and a gourmet dinner that Museum hosted the 1997 Bugeye Ball for ended with a screwpile the benefit of the Lighthouse Preservation lighthouse dessert, prepared Endowment Fund. More than 230 guests especially for the ball by enjoyed an evening with beautiful weather. Maryland Country Caterers. The decorative theme featured lighthouse The lucky winner of the 1997 collectible centerpieces in candlelight as ball ticket raffle was James Perry welt as the Cedar Point Lighthouse exhibit Lamar of St. Mary's County. on display in the lower gallery. The 1997 Bugeye Ball Highlights of the ball were dancing with committee members were music by Main Street, a silent auction, raffle, Cindy Arban, feane Bare, Nancy Bennett, Joan Kocen, Jean Murray, Sherry Reid, Peggy Shook, Dreena Inc., Louise Woemer and Don Kollmorgen; Yacovelle, and chairman Carey Randall. Patrons — Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Aldridge Sr., Supporters of this year's ball were: Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Bare, Calvert Marina, Benefactors — Stanley and Barbara Heritage Chrysler Plymouth Jeep Eagle, Benning, Cumberland and Erly LLC, and G. Holiday Inn Select Solomons, The S. Oursler Jr.; Sponsors — Ernie and Ann Honorable Steny Hoyer, Mr. and Mrs. Bell, BGE, Calvert Bank and Trust, Dr. Mark Walter M. Meinhardt, The Honorable and Frazer, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Harms, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., Ralph's Mrs. Phillip S. Hughes, Marrick Properties Dodge of Prince Frederick, Scheibel Inc., Don and Carey Randall, SMECO, Don Construction, Solomons Veterinary Clinic, and Sarabeth Smith, Washburn's Boat Yard and Mrs. Isabelle Woodburn. MUSEUM BOARD IN 1998 Laura Cranford is the new assistant in the Education Department. After thirteen years with the county's The County Commissioners have appointed three new members to the museum's Department of Parks and Recreation as a Board of Governors for 1998. Former State Senator C. Bernard Fowler, Solomons recreation coordinator, she took a year's sabbatical businesswoman Susan Fischer, and St. Mary's County resident Dawn Szot will replace to complete a degree in management development. A native of Calvert County in the outgoing board members J. Ernest Bell, Jodie Marinelli, and John W. Williams Jr. who have Plum Point area, she and her husband, Randy all served with distinction during the past years. Two present board members were Barrett, now reside in Cheapeake Beach. reappointed: Michael J. Moore and Carmen N. Sanders. Photo by Bob Hall Board members continuing to serve include: Karen H. Abrams, Donald L. Brown, J. Matthew Gambrill, William B. Glascock II, Carl M. Loffler, Sherry D. Reid, Margaret W. Reynolds, John A. Simpson Jr., John C. Smith, and George C. Tilghman. County Commissioner Bugeye Times Dr. Mark R. Frazer is an ex-officio member as is CMM's director C. Douglass Alves Jr. Quarterly Newsletter of the Members of the museum's Board of Governors also serve as directors of the Calvert Marine Calvert Marine Museum Museum Society, Inc., the non-profit corporation that raises funds for the museum. and the Calvert Marine Museum Society, Inc. (1SSN0887-651X) C. Douglass Alves, Jr., Director VIRGINIA N. ALLMAN, who for over the past thirteen years has handled the museum's Paul L. Berry, Editor financial affairs as business manager, will retire on January 30, 1998. Ginny was Other contributors to this issue: appointed in November 1984 as administrative assistant after an earlier career at the. Sybol Cook, Debra Yorty Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. Her responsibilities have involved the changing The bugeye was the traditional sailing craft of the and growing financial records of the museum — both county and internal budgets — Bay, and was built in all its glory at Solomons, ihe as well as those of the Calvert Marine Museum Society, the separate 501{c){3) "Bugeye Capital of the World," Membership dues are used to fund special museum projects, programs, fundraising arm of CMM. Her detailed and accurate records have assisted the and printing of this newsletter. Address comments museumn's Board of Governors and the society's Board of Directors in carrying out and membership applications to: their fiduciary responsibilities. In addition to her financial work, Ginny has supervised Caiverl Marine Museum Society, Inc. the office staff and the work of the museum store. P.O. Box 97 Solomons, MD 20688-0097 Board members, staff members, and museum volunteers have all benefited from 410-326-2042 Ginny's dedicated services and her willingness to provide assistance with any questions FAX 410-326-6691 involving budgets and finances — a somewhat thankless, but vital museum function. TDD 410-535-6355 Ginny and her husband James J. Allman, the county's director of administration and Printed on Recycled Paper. finance, live in the Huntingtown area where they plan to remain. WINTER 1997/1998 Of Special Interest to Members ... The 1997 Year-End Appeal Your Gift Supports Estuarine Ecology Internships CMM staff have greatly enjoyed working side by side gain valuable experience in all facets of public aquarium with students to stimulate their interest in museum work husbandry — skills that give them a bona fide edge as they and help them prepare for careers as museum and pursue careers in the competitive science world. science professionals. We have been fortunate to have If you agree that providing young people with talented young women and men from St. Mary's College opportunities to gain real work experience is important, and the University of please consider making a Maryland take the initiative gift to the Year-End Appeal. to pursue internships with Since I was seven or eight years old Your gift will directly us. I've wanted to "swim with the dolphins." support estuarine ecology Internships are internships and other very But, after spending summer after summer at rny extremely valuable both to grandmother's house on the Chesapeake Bay, I decided important museum projects students and to the that creating a jellyfish repellant was a much more and outreach in estuarine museum. Our interns important goal! In 1992 I enrolled in the University of biology, maritime history, acquire important skills Maryland's Marine Biology Program. During college and paleontology.
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