• the Pungoteague River Light was the shortest-lived screwpile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay, and may have been the shortest-lived lighthouse in the United States?
• the Clay Island Light at the mouth of the Nanticoke River on the Chesapeake Bay collapsed only two years after being decommissioned?
• in 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed five miles (8 km) down the Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement (pictured) has been leaning since 1977?
• R. V. Truitt, a World War I fighter pilot, studied Chesapeake Bay oysters for 30 years?

Facts on topics related to Chesapeake Bay

Allegheny Mountains

• Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• John McMillan's Log School, a Latin school that eventually developed into Washington & Jefferson College, is regarded as the oldest educational building west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• at 1,328 feet (405 m) above sea level, Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is the most elevated road between the Rockies and Alleghenies?
• in the 1770s, Thaddeus Dod became the second minister to settle west of the Monongahela River and the first to establish a presbytery west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• legend says a quart of Bourbon whiskey rests under each of the six columns on the front of Giddings Hall (pictured) at Georgetown College, the first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• the Indiana Historical Society (pictured) is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• the Romney Expedition, led by Stonewall Jackson, cleared Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War?
• the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?

Garrett County, Maryland

• on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?