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You can be the first to bid on a 120-year-old Chesapeake Bay lighthouse that the federal government is auctioning off online. The Hooper Island Lighthouse is located about 4 miles offshore from Middle ...

To call it a fixer-upper would be generous. There’s no running water, no heat, no electricity. Once one gets past the romance of buying a historic Chesapeake Bay lighthouse, there’s lead paint, ...

For 30 days, no one offered to buy this Chesapeake Bay lighthouse. Then the first bid came in. And a second. And soon there was a bidding war for a lighthouse that can’t be used as a home or rental ...

HOOPERSVILLE, Md. (AP) — The federal government has sold off a rather inhospitable lighthouse in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay for a six-figure sum after a bidding war at auction. The Hooper Island ...

Efforts to raise enough money to stop a 145-year-old lighthouse from falling into Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay were a big success, and almost all the repair work is done. The hexagon-shaped Thomas Point ...

HOOPERSVILLE, Md. (7News) — The federal government has auctioned off the Hooper Island Lighthouse that's located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The bidding was slow at first -- the lighthouse ...

Not the nonprofits or preservationists. Not education agencies or community development groups or fishermen or lighthouse enthusiasts. Maybe that’s because the price for the Hooper Island Lighthouse ...