Point Lookout, Maryland
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Point Lookout is a Maryland state park in St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. Captain John Smith first explored the Point in 1612. Leonard Calvert used the Point for his personal manor in 1634. During the American Revolution, and again in the War of 1812, it was subject to British raids. In 1862 during the American Civil War it was made into a Union prisoner of war camp. Of the 50,000 men held at the Point between 1863 and 1865, nearly 4,000 died, although this was less than half the death rate had they not been captured. Today it is a Maryland State Park and retains an original light house built in 1830, a fishing pier, boat launch facilities, public beaches and facilities, overnight camping, Civil War historical remains, and ghosts.
External links
- [Point Lookout State Park]
- [PLSP history]
- [Point Lookout Sketches at the American Memorary from the Library of Congress Website]
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