Fishing Battery Light

Fishing Battery Light is a brick lighthouse standing on an artificial island at the mouth of the Susquehanna River. The building features a one-and-a-half story house with a centered lantern room, and a steel skeleton tower erected in 1928 behind it to maintain modern navigation signals in Chesapeake Bay.

Congress authorized the lighthouse in 1851 and John Donahoo completed it in 1853 as his final Maryland project. The Bureau of Fisheries later acquired the island and established a fish hatchery there in 1880.

The United States Bureau of Fisheries established a fish hatchery on the island in 1880, acquiring the property and implementing substantial improvements.

The lighthouse sits on an island accessible only by water, so reaching it requires boat transportation. Since it remains in active navigation service, visitor access and viewing hours are typically limited.

The island was raised at a later time, requiring an unusual solution where the keeper's house walls had to be extended upward to match the new ground level. This modification remains visible in how the structure is built today.

Location: Maryland

GPS coordinates: 39.49500,-76.08300

Latest update: December 14, 2025 11:06