Pungoteague Creek Light

Pungoteague Creek Light - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Pungoteague Creek Light was a small screwpile lighthouse constructed in the Chesapeake Bay in 1854. Destroyed in 1856, it had the shortest recorded existence of any lighthouse on the Bay, and possibly the United States, at just 459 days. Read more on Wikipedia

type: lighthouse
date from: 1854

Source: en.wikipedia.org