Sharps Island Light
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Sharps Island Light
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The Sharps Island Light is the third lighthouse to stand nearly 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest from the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. The structure is best known today for evoking the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a condition caused by an ice floe in 1977. The first lighthouse was built on Sharps Island in 1838, but due to the island's erosion it was moved in 1848. This was replaced with a screwpile lighthouse in 1866 near the original location of the first structure. Th
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Lighthouse in Maryland, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharps_Island_Light
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2023-11-27T23:48:43Z
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