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St Clements Island
Sunken Fleet of Mallow's Bay Skeletal remains of approx 70 WWI era steamships. Ordered by the navy, completed after the war, never used, towed here, and burnt.
Approaching Cole's Point Virginia
Point Lookout 100 miles downriver from Washington DC. Eight miles across to the Virginia shore. 1612 John Smith explores 1632 becomes a Govenor's Manor British raid here during the Revolution British again raid in 1812 1857 becomes a resort 1862 becomes a Civil war hospital then confederate prisoner of war camp. Now a State Park
Marker Reads: "To this island in March 1634 Govenor Leonard Calvert and the first Maryland Colonists came in the vessels Ark and Dove. Here they took possession of the province of Maryland, erected a cross of Maryland wood and celebrated the holy sacrifice.Here they first brought to the new world those principles of religious liberty which have been the chief history of this state."
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