It helped guide ships through the hazards in the Chesapeake Bay and has a rich history in St. Mary’s and mariner history.

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 ...

Since the children's book “Drew’s Grand Adventure” was published in December, it has amassed more than $2,000 in sales, which ...

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 ...

The six one-hour programs visit remote locations such as Thomas Point Lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay, the reef lights of Florida’s southern coast, California’s St. George’s Reef Lighthouse ...

The brick lighthouse was constructed in the 1790s and was an important step for trade along the Virginia and Maryland coasts, as it made the Chesapeake Bay easier and safer to navigate.