Continuing a bit with the St. Michaels OyseterFest activities...

Here's a series of images from inside the Hooper Strait Lighthouse which is now relocated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum at St. Michaels, Maryland. 

There were two floors of living quarters.  Here and there were items that still had to do with maintaining the functions of the lighthouse within the living space. 

The intent of this short series is to give us some idea of what life must have been like living in, and maintaining this type of "screw-pile" lighthouse.  Using the screw-pile method, seven wrought iron piles, ten inches in diameter, were literally screwed into the bottom as deep as 10 feet. The wood frame superstructure and the rest of the ironwork were delivered to the site by schooner, and the lighthouse?s fifth order Fresnel lens was first illuminated on October 15, 1879.
 
There was a second floor room which contained the mechanism (attached) for the fog bell, which hung outside a window. The keepers had to wind the mechanism to start the bell, which struck a single blow every 10 seconds, when visibility fell to five miles or less. An air whistle eventually replaced the bell in the 1930s.


The following was used to capture and process all the images in this segment unless otherwise specified...
W1, SPM, PS-CS6, IrfanView.

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