# Fog Point Light

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The **Fog Point Light** was a historic [lighthouse](/source/Lighthouse) located at Fog Point, the northwestern tip of [Smith Island, Maryland](/source/Smith_Island,_Maryland) in the [Chesapeake Bay](/source/Chesapeake_Bay).

## History

This light was constructed in 1827 by [John Donahoo](/source/John_Donahoo) to mark the entrance to the Kedges Strait north of Smith Island. Originally equipped with 10 [Argand lamps](/source/Argand_lamp) and reflectors, it received a fifth-order [Fresnel lens](/source/Fresnel_lens) in 1855.

This light's isolated location on swampy ground was cause for concern, and in 1872 a Lighthouse Board report noted it as having little value. In 1875 it was supplanted by the [Solomons Lump Light](/source/Solomons_Lump_Light), which stood in the strait to the northeast. The old light was abandoned, and no trace of it remains.

## References

- [Fog Point Light](http://www.cheslights.org/heritage/fogpoint.htm), from the Chesapeake Chapter of the [United States Lighthouse Society](/source/United_States_Lighthouse_Society)
- de Gast, Robert (1973). [*The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake*](https://archive.org/details/lighthousesofche0000dega). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. [166](https://archive.org/details/lighthousesofche0000dega/page/166). ISBN 9780801815485.

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