rising up unexpectedly from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Smith Point Lighthouse is for sale. Photo: Zillow The octagonal brick building is built on a cast iron caisson that is continually ...

That’s the simple origin story of how the McNallys came to own the 19th-century Smith Point Lighthouse, which sits about 1,135 miles away in the Chesapeake Bay, a few miles off the coast of ...

It was manned by the Coast Guard until 1986 when it became the last lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay to be fully automated. It is the only screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay still in its ...