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The area got its name from its role as a lookout post, used to watch British ship movements during the War of 1812. [9]During the War of 1812 the Chesapeake Bay was a major route for British War ships, who established a naval and military base at near-by Tangier Island in Virginia for the Royal Navy under Rear Admiral George Cockburn with Fort Albion there, which constantly raided Chesapeake ...
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.
Fort Lincoln was built starting on August 26, 1861 by the First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry [1] along the border of the District of Columbia and Prince George's County, Maryland it was named in honor of President Abraham Lincoln by General Order No. 18, A.G.O., Sept. 30, 1861. [2]
Fort Washington Light: ... Maryland Point Light: Potomac River ... Point Lookout Light: Point Lookout 1830 Never 1965 None 41 ft ...
The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2). The length of the river from the junction of its North and South Branches to Point Lookout is 302 mi (486 km). [4]
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812 , when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814.
Fort Lincoln; Fort Lookout; Fort Mann; Fort McKean; Fort Montgomery (1855) Fort Montgomery (1861) Fort Riley, closed to the public; Fort Row; Fort Saunders; Fort Scott, open to the public; Fort Simple; Fort Solomon; Fort Sully; Fort Titus; Fort Wakarusa; Fort Wallace; Fort Zarah
Point Lookout (Colorado), a mountain in Mesa Verde National Park Point Lookout (New South Wales), a mountain in New South Wales Point Lookout, Maryland. Point Lookout State Park, Maryland, site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp