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Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying Point Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The state park preserves the site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp and the Point Lookout Light ...
St. Mary's County has the oldest documented sheriff's office in Maryland and one of the oldest in the United States. [12] In 1637, James Baldridge was appointed sheriff. Since 1776, sheriffs in St. Mary's County have been determined by election. Steven A. Hall is the current sheriff. He was sworn in on December 5, 2022.
Maryland Route 5 (MD 5) is a 74.34-mile (119.64 km) long state highway that runs north–south in the U.S. state of Maryland. The highway runs from Point Lookout in St. Mary's County north to the Washington, D.C. border in Suitland, Prince George's County. MD 5 begins as two-lane undivided Point Lookout Road which runs from Point Lookout to an ...
Newtowne Neck State Park: St. Mary's: 794 acres 321 ha 2009: Potomac River: Non-motorized boating, hiking, picnicking, fishing: North Point State Park: Baltimore: 1,328 acres 537 ha 1987: Back River, Patapsco River, Chesapeake Bay: Former site of the Bay Shore Amusement Park; visitors center, swimming, hiking and biking trails, pier and shore ...
Point Lookout Light. Point Lookout Light is a lighthouse that marks the entrance to the Potomac River at the southernmost tip of Maryland's western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, south of the town of Scotland in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA. The lighthouse is located in Point Lookout State Park. It is not open to the public.
St. Inigoes, sometimes called St. Inigoes Shores, is a small, rural, unincorporated farming, fishing and crabbing community at the southern end of St. Mary's County in the U.S. state of Maryland that is undergoing a transition to small residential subdevelopment plots. [1][2] Its western side is bordered by a number of coves and creeks that are ...
St. Mary's Peninsula, at the southern tip of Maryland's Western Shore. St. Mary's Peninsula is part of the Western Shore region of Maryland.From the Charles County line, just north of Charlotte Hall, Maryland, to the southern tip of St. Mary's County at Point Lookout State Park, St. Mary's Peninsula stretches about 39 miles (63 km). [1]
Crisfield is the southernmost city in the state of Maryland; the point farthest south is geographically located at Ape Hole. Regardless of this, Southern Maryland is an official region of the state not associated with the Eastern Shore, and areas of Saint Mary's County are sometimes claimed to be the southernmost point of the state. [21]