A fact from Holland Island Bar Light appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Holland Island Bar Light in Maryland was once accidentally used for target practice by the United States Navy? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/August.

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Great article. Any thoughts on creating one for the Baltimore lighthouse off the mouth of the Magothy River? It was the worlds first nuclear powered lighthouse in the 1950s. -- Stbalbach 16:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Sure thing - I'll get onto it right away.

This is part, incidentally, of WikiProject Lighthouses, so we'll hopefully eventually get an article for every lighthouse in the country. -- AlbertHerring 18:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks, I just happen to know about nuclear power trivia as I used to live right on-shore of the Lighthouse and saw it every day and would boat up to it occasionally. It's a pretty interesting bit of a trivia, who knew there were nuclear powered lighthouse, it's not anymore of course, that was back in the 50s and 60s when anything could be done. -- Stbalbach 21:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Wow, that sounds really interesting. Amazing, the things that they used to put reactors in. I may just have to start an article on it. — smably 20:31, 25 August 2006 (UTC) reply

That would be an interesting article. I think the USSR also had nuclear powered lighthouses (and probably a lot of other things). -- Stbalbach 02:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC) reply