Fort Carroll Lighthouse

Fort Carroll Lighthouse. .

1847 Construction of the fort begins to protect Baltimore Harbor. , 1850 The Fort is named after Charles Carroll, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. , 1852 Congress provides $1,500 for a lighthouse at Fort Carroll. , 1854 A temporary wooden tower lighthouse is built on the fort's unfinished parapet. , 1875 A new wooden tower is constructed and fitted with the lens and fog bell from the original lighthouse. , 1888 A two-story keeper's dwelling is built at a cost of approximately 1,000. , 1898 The lighthouse and fog bell tower are demolished to allow installation of gun batteries , A temporary tower is built 100 feet north of the original location. , 1900 The present-day wooden tower is moved 100 feet south due to additional fort modifications. , 1921 The U.S. Army abandons the fort and the light is automated. , 1958 The U.S. Government sells the fort for $10,000. , 1964 The lighthouse receives various repairs and is vandalized one month later. , 1965 The lighthouse is taken out of service and is replaced by a buoy.

, . Fort Carroll and the lighthouse sit on a man-made island in the Patapsco River, southeast of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across from the Hawkins Point Lighthouse at Fort Armistead. , . The first temporary lighthouse at Fort Carroll was built in 1854 to warn ships of the construction site and to indicate the path from Brewerton Channel to Fort McHenry Channel. , . The first temporary lighthouse was equipped with a fifth-order lens that produced a fixed white light and bog bell. Martin Kasson, the light's first keeper was the only resident of the fort at that time. , . During World War II, the fort was used as a firing range and as temporary quarters for sailors whose ships had to be fumigated prior to entering the harbor. , . The lighthouse has been on the Lighthouse Digest "Doomsday List" since 1994.