Point Lookout State Park

After my visit to Historic St. Mary's City, I continued on to Point Lookout State Park, which is the southernmost point in Maryland west of the Chesapeake Bay.  Within the park are the remains and reconstructed buildings of a fort built during the Civil War.  Here are some of its earthworks.

More earthworks are separated from the Potomac River by rocks.  Unfortunately, I had some focusing problems during my visit.

Here are still more earthworks, and a reconstructed building.

The large building in this picture is a reconstructed barracks for enlisted men.  The smaller building on the left was a housing for officers.  Several men were working inside the enlisted barracks, two of whom informed me about the buildings, including the fact that they are reconstructions.  According to GoogleMaps, this is Fort Lincoln, but according to the men I talked to, it isn't.

I continued on down to the Point Lookout Lighthouse, at which the road I was on, Maryland route 5, came to its end.  Behind it are two buildings that appear to have been used for sheltering boats.

Here are the two boat shelters.  A set of rails extends into one of them, with a branch extending between them.

I turned around and saw that the rails at one time extended to a boat launching structure, the remains of which are still in the Potomac.  Unfortunate, the bad focus gremlin struck my camera again.

After a bit more wandering, I took another shot of the lighthouse, from the opposite side as seen above.  Again, I had trouble focusing.

Finally, I took a shot of this buoy, set on its side in front of the lighthouse.

To learn more about Point Lookout State Park, besides the link above, go to Visit St Mary's MD.  To learn more about the lighthouse, go to Lighthouse Friends, United States Lighthouse Society and Baltimore Ghosts.