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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 ...

The U.S. government is looking to unload the Hooper Island Lighthouse, located about 4 miles west of Middle Hooper Island in Marylands portion of Chesapeake Bay, WJLA-TV reported. The online auction ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...