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GNIS feature ID. 594921 [2] St. George Island is an unincorporated census-designated place in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. The post office at Piney Point serves the island, which is connected to the mainland by a short bridge. [2] During the War of 1812, the British made the island their headquarters, and raided shipyards and ...
Piney Point, Maryland. / 38.14222°N 76.50750°W / 38.14222; -76.50750. Piney Point (also known simply as " The Point " [ 2] ), is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. It is known for the Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education, houses along the beach, a ...
Maryland Route 249 (MD 249) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Piney Point Road, the state highway runs 9.84 miles (15.84 km) from St. George Island north to MD 5 in Callaway. MD 249 is the primary access to St. George Island and the communities of Piney Point, Tall Timbers, and Valley Lee on the Piney Point peninsula ...
UTC-4 (EDT) ZIP code. 20684. Area codes. 301, 240. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Piney Point Lighthouse was built in 1836 located at Piney Point on the Potomac River in Maryland just up the river from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. [2][3] The Coast Guard decommissioned it in 1964 and it has since become a museum. It is known as the Lighthouse of Presidents because several early US Presidents visited or stayed on the ...
St. George Island, Maryland MD 249 (Piney Point Road) west side, 0.1 mile south of St. George Island Bridge 38°08′05.18″N 76°29′49.50″W / 38.1347722°N 76.4970833°W / 38.1347722; -76.4970833 ( British Landing Prevented