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The Pages Rock Light was a
lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mar ...
located in the York River in the Chesapeake Bay.


History

This light was constructed in 1893, a late date for a screw-pile structure. The hexagonal house was prefabricated at Lazaretto Point in Baltimore and apparently had an unexciting career before its removal in 1967 as part of the general program of decommissioning screw pile lights in the bay.


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from the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society * {{authority control Lighthouses in Virginia Lighthouses completed in 1893 Houses completed in 1893 Lighthouses in the Chesapeake Bay