I'm visiting southern Maryland for a few days and checking out various parks, lighthouses, and museums. I'm hoping to discover some fossils and shark teeth at Calvert Cliffs State Park which is on the coastline of the Chesapeake Bay.
I will be staying in a place named Piney Point. It's a small sliver of land between the Potomac and St. Marys Rivers. The place was named for the numerous yellow and loblolly pines prevalent in the area.
In the early 1940s, Piney Point was also home to the U.S. Navy Torpedo Test Range. (Kate knew this tidbit of information from somewhere in the far reaches of her memory.) That area is now home to a maritime training center.
In 1776, St. George Island, Maryland was the site of a battle in the Revolutionary War where British forces under the command of John Murray ( 4th Earl of Dunmore) attempted to land on the mainland in Maryland. Maryland's Flying Camp militia under the command of Captain Rezin Beall, who was wounded in action in this battle, fought off the invading British, preventing the invasion of the mainland. This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War in Maryland.
Click on the pictures below to see the pictures and descriptions of the places I visited.
Southern Maryland
