Drum Point Lighthouse is a cottage style, "screw pile" type lighthouse.  Construction of this lighthouse began in July, 1883 and was completed in August of the same year. The lighthouse is white, wooden, and hexagonal in shape.  The screw pile base in made of wrought iron. Its prisms only had a range of 270 degrees, meaning that the other 90 degrees was over land. The make-up of the cottage is one and a half stories.  The bottom floor consists of a sitting room, keepers bedroom, a kitchen and a dining room. The half story contains a second bedroom and a bell room.  The lights first keeper was Benjamin N. Gray.

In 1962 the lighthouse was removed from service and deeded to the state of Maryland, which had hoped to restore it.  The state ended up returning it to the General Services Administration. Nature had taken its toll on the lighthouse, and due to the silting, the lighthouse was coming closer and closer to land, eventually finding itself surrounded by it. Now it was easily accessible to people who could vandalize it. In 1973 the lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1974 the title was transferred to the Calvert Marine Museum. It was moved in 1975 to the museum and overlooks Backwater creek. It was restored to its original state and can be viewed by the public. Drum Point Lighthouse is one of three remaining lighthouses (out of 45) that once served the Chesapeake Bay.

Picture Provided by Stephanie Konecny