The Leading Point Light was an unusual

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which displayed the rear light to the Brewerton Channel

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. It was eventually superseded by an iron tower on the same foundation.

History

This light was built in 1868, along with the Hawkins Point Light, to provide

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s marking the Brewerton Channel, excavated in the 1850s to provide a fixed deepwater channel into Baltimore Harbor. In form, it was like no other lighthouse in the area, a brick house with a short tower holding the lantern surmounted with a tall pole supporting a large ball, to be used as a

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. In 1924 both lights in this range were torn down and replaced with skeleton towers, which remain in use.

References

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Brewerton Range Front Light
from the Chesapeake Chapter of the

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* {{authority control 1868 establishments in Maryland Buildings and structures demolished in 1924 Hawkins Point, Baltimore Lighthouses completed in 1868 Lighthouses completed in 1924 Lighthouses in the Chesapeake Bay Lighthouses in Baltimore