![]() Bodkin Island Light after abandonment | |
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Location | Off Bodkin Point at the mouth of the Patapsco River |
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Coordinates | 39°08′02″N 76°25′37″W / 39.134°N 76.427°W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1821 |
Construction | stone masonry |
Height | 35 feet (11 m) |
Shape | conical tower |
Light | |
First lit | 1822 |
Deactivated | 1856 then later destroyed by erosion |
The Bodkin Island Light (or Bodkin Point Light) was a lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay, United States, the first erected in Maryland.