Pasadena History: First Lighthouses in Maryland

Here is your weekly dose of some Pasadena history thanks to The Pasadena Peninsula by Isabel Shipley Cunningham.

The first lighthouse on Maryland waters was right here in Pasadena.

“In 1819 Congress authorized building lighthouses at Bodkin Point, North Point and Sparrows Point to serve vessels on the way to the port of Baltimore,” Cunningham wrote. “Ships often grounded on the sandbar near Bodkin Island ... Though there were earlier lighthouses on the Virginia shores of the Chesapeake, Bodkin lighthouse was the first in Maryland waters.”

Be sure to check back next Wednesday for more Pasadena history.