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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 ...
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 lighthouse, and a museum.
Now on the mainland, MD 249 continues through the community of Piney Point, where the highway passes the entrance to the Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education and Lighthouse Road. Lighthouse Road, which was formerly MD 498, leads to the Piney Point Lighthouse and the wreckage of German submarine U-1105 on the bottom of the ...
The first lighthouse in the state was lit in 1822 and the last in 1965 (ignoring automated towers erected later); the oldest surviving structure is the Pooles Island Light and the oldest still active is the Cove Point Light.
What to know about Piney Point, a former industrial site that threatened the health of Tampa Bay. A leaking radioactive mound led to a crisis in Florida. What’s next for the toxic site?
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Sotterley Plantation is a reconstructed antebellum plantation with a history museum that features pre-Civil War history; USS Tulip monument and federal grave site for Civil War sailors who died in the explosion of a Union gunship in area waters in 1864; Point Lookout Light House; Piney Point Lighthouse and Museum
Piney Point Formation, a geologic formation in Virginia Piney Point Light , an historic lighthouse in Maryland Piney Point phosphate plant , an industrial site in Florida