This particular lighthouse is located about as far north as you can go in the Chesapeake Bay and still be on the water. It's in Havre de Grace, Maryland, which is one of the last towns of note in Maryland just off I-95 before it exits the Free State.
The lighthouse is the Concord Point Light, which has its own website (with a panorama and some tour videos), and which is one of the oldest operating lighthouses in Maryland.
As for location, it can be found here.
I'm going to go to Lighthouse Friends for information this time, because it has more history.
"At the time of its decommissioning in 1975, Concord Point Lighthouse had the distinction of being the oldest beacon in continuous use in Maryland. The name Concord Point is derived from Conquered Point, which is itself a rearrangement of the original christening, Point of Conquest.On the website, you can read about the heroic actions of the lighthouse keeper and his daughter during the battle of Havre de Grace during the War of 1812.
The 484-square-foot lighthouse tract was deeded to the federal government by the town commissioners in 1826, and on May 18 of that year Congress provided $2,500 for the lighthouse and added $1,500 to this amount on March 2, 1827. Donahoo built the thirty-foot-tall lighthouse and the associated keeper’s dwelling, which was located 200 feet away, between May and November of 1827. The lighthouse, a truncated conical tower topped by a lantern and deck, was built with Port Deposit granite, barged down the Susquehanna River."
Though the lighthouse was decommissioned, it and keeper's house have been restored, and it operates with a fifth-order Fresnel lens that is on loan from the Coast Guard. The original went missing soon after the decommissioning, but according to the website, some people think/hope that the current lens is the one that was lost. I'm not sure how connected to fact that is.
So now, the pictures, with a video at the end.
And now the video:
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