BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Point Lookout State Park

MD -- Point Lookout State Park:

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1. PTLOO_040710_045.JPG: Margot Lebow @ Point Lookout State Park
2. PTLOO_040710_088.JPG: Enlistedman's Barracks (Reconstruction) The enlistedman's barracks housed approximately 85 men comprising the company's compliment of sergeants, corporals and private soldiers. The closet in each room was provided for weapons and baggage that each soldier was issued. The smaller of the two rooms was the noncommissioned officers room. It housed the compliment of sergeants and corporals while the larger portion of the building housed the private soldiers. Each bunk or crib would provide sleeping room for two men of each level. Furniture, such as tables and chairs, were either constructed or provided for their comfort.
3. PTLOO_040710_121.JPG: This is Fort Lincoln. It's a reconstruction of the fort that existed here while Pt Lookout served as a Union prison holding Confederate troops during the Civil War. The original fort was constructed by prison labor.
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Wikipedia Description: Point Lookout State Park
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Point Lookout is a Maryland state park at the southern tip of St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River.

Captain John Smith first explored the Point in 1612. Leonard Calvert used the Point for his personal manor in 1634. During the American Revolution, and again in the War of 1812, it was subject to British raids.

In 1862 during the American Civil War, much of Point Lookout was transformed into a Union prisoner of war camp to hold Confederate captives. Of the 50,000 men held in tents at the Point between 1863 and 1865, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, nearly 4,000 died, although this death rate of 8 percent was less than half the death rate among soldiers who were in the field with their own armies.. The camp, originally built to hold 10,000 men, swelled to between 12,000 to 20,000 prisoners after the exchange of prisoners between armies was placed on hold. The result was crowded conditions with up to sixteen men to a tent in poor sanitation conditions. In some cases the guards were former slaves of the prisoners, and this sometimes resulted in brutal or favorable treatment.

Today Point Lookout is a Maryland State Park and retains an original light house built in 1830, a fishing pier, boat launch facilities, public beaches and facilities, overnight camping, Civil War historical remains, and, reputedly, ghosts.
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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