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The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Description: Afloat in a Lighthouse - A Chesapeake Bay lighthouse and its Keepers Carried Away by the Ice.

Date: January 17 1877

Newspaper published in: Philadelphia

Source: newspaper archives

Washington, DC, Jan. 16, 1877:
Thr lighthouse at Hooper Strait, Eastern Shore of Chesaprake Bay, which was carried away by the ice on Thursday last, was carried out on the Chesapeake about four miles with the crew on board. The boats belonging to it were caught by the falling house which remained afloat on the ice and at last advices it was four miles west northwaet of its proper location where there are about seven fathoms of water. The ice still kept it afloat and no assistance could be given the light keepers from the shore. Captain Conaway and an assistant had charge of the lighthouse.

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