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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.
West of Piney Point on Maryland Route 498 38°08′06″N 76°31′47″W / 38.135°N 76.529722°W / 38.135; -76.529722 ( Piney Point Coast Guard Light Piney Point
Love Point Light: Kent Island: 1872 1953 1964 (Demolished) None Unknown Lower Cedar Point Light: Potomac River: 1867 (First) 1896 (Last) Never 1951 (Replaced with skeleton tower) None Unknown Maryland Point Light
Point Lookout Light House; Piney Point Lighthouse and Museum; Cecils Old Mill museum, art gallery, and artists co-op in nearby Great Mills, Maryland; National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Mary's County, Maryland many buildings in the county are listed, dating to the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s
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 ...
Piney Point Light: Piney Point: St. Mary's: Southern: Lighthouse: Includes lighthouse, museum and historic boat display Piscataway Indian Museum: Waldorf: Charles: Southern: Native American: history and culture of the Piscataway tribe and other native peoples Point Lookout Light: Scotland: St. Mary's: Southern: Maritime: Point Lookout State ...
Point No Point Lighthouse, Maryland from LighthouseFriends.com; de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780801815485. "Point No Point Lighthouse: Online auction". General Services Administration Office of Real Property Disposal