A Chesapeake Bay lighthouse is up for auction. So far, no one has bid on it. September 2, 2022 More than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Lighthouse, located ...

Buying a pirate ship houseboat? Tired. Buying a 120-year-old Chesapeake Bay lighthouse? Wired. On your list labeled “Things I Didn’t Know I Needed Until I Saw Them on the Internet,” add the Hooper ...

A lonely lighthouse built in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay in 1902 has a new owner whose identity has not been revealed. The federal government started an online auction of the Hooper Island ...

Nobody wants it.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 ...

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 Lighthouse, located w… ...

Maybe that's because the price tag for the Hooper Island Lighthouse is $15,000, a buyer would have to spend considerable money fixing it up, and, according to the listing, ...

“Odd Chesapeake Bay lighthouse sells for absurd sum at auction,” a website mocked. The buyer remained a mystery until the clerk of court for Dorchester County recorded the deed on Dec. 27.

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.

Maybe that’s because the price for the Hooper Island Lighthouse is $15,000, and because a buyer would have to spend a considerable amount of money fixing it up, and on top of which, according to ...