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Place Name
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Lookout, Point
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Place Status (Type)
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point
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Location
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St. Marys County, Maryland (MD), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Lookout, Point
, low headland, St. Marys co., S Md., at N side
of mouth of the Potomac on Chesapeake Bay; lighthouse (built 1830).
Visitors can picnic, swim, and fish in 700 acres/283 ha
Point Lookout State Park, where a notorious prison housed 20,000
Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, of whom 3,384 died. One
survivor was Sidney Lanier, the poet.
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