Hooper Strait Light

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Hooper Strait Light

Undated photograph of Hooper Strait Light (USCG)
Location	Originally in Hooper Strait north of Bloodsworth Island in the Chesapeake Bay; relocated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Coordinates	38°13′36″N 76°04′32″W / 38.2267°N 76.0756°W / 38.2267; -76.0756 (original); 38°47′15″N 76°13′09″W / 38.7875°N 76.2192°W / 38.7875; -76.2192 (current)
Tower
Foundation	screw-pile
Construction	cast-iron/wood
Automated	1954
Shape	hexagonal house
Light
First lit	1867
Deactivated	1966
Lens	fifth-order Fresnel lens

Hooper Strait Light is one of four surviving Chesapeake Bay screw-pile lighthouses in the U.S. state of Maryland. Originally located in Hooper Strait, between Hooper and Bloodsworth Islands in Dorchester County and at the entrance to Tangier Sound, it is now an exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland.