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St. Ignatius Church, Cemetery Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary Calvert Marine Museum One of the oldest counties in Maryland and located Indian Head Rail Trail Calvert County, embraced by the Chesapeake Bay and Thomas Manor House and the Patuxent River, entices the visitor with 2880 Grays Road, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 14200 Solomons Island Road, Solomons, MD 20688 in the heart of the Baltimore-Washington-Richmond www.charlescountyparks.com • 301-932-3470 410-535-5327 • www.calvertparks.org 410-326-2042 • www.calvertmarinemuseum.com A 13-mile paved rail trail that connects the Town of 8855 Chapel Point Road, Port Tobacco, MD, 20677 a chance to discover and explore at the relaxed corridor, Charles County’s scenic natural charm can This 100-acre ecological In the only museum on the Indian Head with the White Plains 301-934-8245 • www.chapelpoint.org be seen in beautiful water trails, secluded parks, pace of a nautical lifestyle. Experience uncommon sanctuary features bald cypress, East Coast that is home to two area of Charles County. This former Founded in 1641 and located on events. Enjoy unspoiled natural areas. Embark on a nature trail on an elevated lighthouses, visitors can explore and unspoiled areas along the new Indian Head railroad corridor is now a regional a 120-foot bluff overlooking the unsurpassed outings for families or groups. boardwalk and a nature center Calvert’s rich maritime history Rail Trail that provide perfect opportunities for bird- favorite for runners, cyclists and confluence of the Potomac and Port Take time to hunt for 15 million-year-old with live animals and exhibits. and see the diversity of life in the watching, hiking, kayaking, canoeing and tournament nature enthusiasts. The IHRT passes Tobacco Rivers, St. Ignatius Church is the nation’s oldest active parish fossils at the famed Calvert Cliffs or climb the Chesapeake Bay come alive. level bass fishing. Benedict, Cobb Island, and Port through the scenic Mattawoman Creek with a continual pastorate and is Bayside History Museum Tobacco waterfronts boast several well-known seafood stream valley. stairway to the Drum Point Lighthouse at the featured on the state designated 9006 Dayton Avenue, North Beach, MD 20714 Flag Ponds Nature Park Calvert Marine Museum. Learn the heritage restaurants, and there are many exciting places to Religious Freedom National Scenic 410-495-8386 • www.baysidehistorymuseum.org 1525 Flag Ponds Parkway, Lusby, MD 20657 Port Tobacco Historic District and agricultural history of Southern Maryland shop, dine, and stay in the retail hub of Waldorf and Byway. Explore the role of the Chesapeake Bay 410-586-1477 • www.calvertparks.org 8730 Commerce Street, Port Tobacco, MD 20677 in historic La Plata. Sports fans will enjoy our award- at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. And environment in shaping the cultures of Flag Ponds showcases natural environments from 301-934-4313 • www.restoreporttobacco.org Thomas Stone National Historic Site when the exploring comes to an end for the day, bayside communities from prehistoric sandy beaches to freshwater winning baseball stadium, which also hosts concerts and The first incorporated community in Maryland, this enjoy savory seafood and warm hospitality in a time to the present in this small gem of ponds and the forested heights special events. An area rich in history, Charles County’s once thriving port town hosts 6655 Rose Hill Road, Port Tobacco, MD 20677 p l a c e w h e r e t i m e m o v e s j u s t a l i t t l e m o r e s l o w l y . a museum. Once the historic “Charlie of Calvert Cliffs with hiking agricultural heritage is still visible in the working farms the Port Tobacco Courthouse. 301-392-1776 • www.nps.gov/thst This site features Haberdeventure, Mead House,” the museum is home to trails, observation platforms, and historic tobacco barns that dot the landscape. Costumed docents give tours, an extensive collection of memorabilia wetlands boardwalk, fishing pier and new interpretive trails are in the NPS-operated home of five

from the bayside community. and visitor center with wildlife development. The site is featured generations of the Stone family, American Chestnut Land Trust on “The Underground Railroad: including Thomas Stone, one of exhibits. Capital Clubhouse South Trail: Scientists Cliffs Road, Port Republic, MD 20676 Maryland’s Network to Freedom.” Maryland’s signers of the Declaration 3033 Waldorf Market Place, Waldorf, MD 20603 North Trail: Double Oak Road, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 Calvert Cliffs State Park Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum Open seasonally. of Independence. The site includes a 410-414-3400 • www.acltweb.org 301-932-4348 • www.capitalclubhouse.com visitor center, cemetery and special events. 9500 H.G. Trueman Road, Lusby, MD 20657 10515 Mackall Road, St. Leonard, MD 20685 Fifteen miles of serene public Conveniently located in the heart 301-743-7613 • www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/ 410-586-8501 • www.jefpat.org Regency Furniture Stadium hiking trails in two locations of Waldorf, this 90,000-square- Water Trails of Charles County southern/calvertcliffs.html Experience, discover, learn 11765 St. Linus Drive, Waldorf, MD 20602 make this a great place to foot indoor sports center features Hiking trails in this 1,460-acre and have fun on 560 acres 301-374-1122 • www.sombluecrabs.com Mattawoman Creek, Mallows Bay, Nanjemoy Creek, hike and explore. Guided an NHL-size ice rink, rock climbing wooded state park lead to the overlooking the Patuxent River. This family-friendly baseball stadium and the Port Tobacco River canoe trips and hikes are wall, two multi-sports courts, a majestic Calvert Cliffs on the Over 70 archaeological sites is home to the So. Maryland Blue 1-800-766-3386 offered from spring to fall, fitness center, various classes, Chesapeake Bay. The park is reflect 12,000 years of human Crabs, who play in the independent www.charlescounty.org as well as annual seasonal special events, a snack bar and an ideal destination for hiking, occupation via an exhibit center, Atlantic League. Concerts, meetings Explore the county by water. Free, water- events for families. party rooms. resistant brochures with water trail maps picnicking, fishing and fossil hiking trails, recreated woodland H.D. Photography and other special events are also hunting. Indian village and tours. held here. of the Potomac River, including access Annmarie Sculpture Garden Dr. Samuel Mudd House points and information on birding, wildlife & Arts Center 3725 Samuel Mudd Road, Waldorf, MD 20601 Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum Kings Landing Park Smallwood State Park viewing and more. 13480 Dowell Road, Solomons, MD 20688 301-274-9358 • www.somd.lib.md.us/MUSEUMS/Mudd 4155 Mears Avenue, Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732 3255 Kings Landing Road, Huntingtown, MD 20639 2750 Sweden Point Road, Marbury, MD 20658 410-326-4640 • www.annmariegarden.org Featured on “Maryland Civil War Waterfront Dining at Pope’s Creek 410-257-3892 • www.cbrm.org 410-535-2661 • www.calvertparks.org 301-743-7613 • www.dnr.state.md.us This 30-acre park features an arts Trails: Escape of an Assassin,” The Chesapeake Beach Railway’s only remaining station Plan a fun family day at this 260-acre Located on a Potomac River tributary, Feast on crabs and succulent seafood at these popular center and shady walking paths the house and farm commemorate now houses a museum which park on the Patuxent River offering a the 628-acre park features a marina, waterfront restaurants on Pope’s Creek that meander through woods and the life of Dr. Samuel Mudd, the displays historical photos and variety of outdoor amenities including boat launch, camping, tournament- in Newburg: Captain Billy’s Crab House, marvelous outdoor sculpture. physician who treated the injured artifacts depicting resort life and wetlands boardwalk, fishing pier, level bass fishing, the Mattawoman 11495 Popes Creek Road, 301-932- Enjoy changing art exhibits in a leg of John Wilkes Booth after he transportation from the early hiking trails, a launch area for canoes Creek Art Center and Smallwood’s 4323; Popes Creek Waterfront Dining, light-filled gallery, or visit one of assassinated President Abraham 1900s. and kayaks, miles of scenic shoreline Retreat, home of Revolutionary War 11455 Popes Creek Road, 301-259- the many featured festivals and Lincoln in April of 1865. and a swimming pool. General William Smallwood. 2710; Gilligan’s Pier & Restaurant, 11535 events throughout the year. Popes Creek Road, 301-259-4514

Where the Potomac meets the Chesapeake!

In 1634, 140 hardy adventurers stepped onto this Leonardtown Downtown and Waterfront Point Lookout State Park, Lighthouse Where Time and Tide Meet bountiful Chesapeake shore and christened the land 22500 Washington Street, Leonardtown, MD 20650 and Civil War Museum “Terra Maria,” or Maryland. Today, historic sites such 3310-475-9791 • http://leonardtown.somd.com 11175 Point Lookout Road, Scotland, MD 20687 Shaped by the Chesapeake Bay and its mighty as St. Clement’s Island and Historic St. Mary’s City Leonardtown’s old fashioned square 301-872-5688 • www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands tributaries, the Patuxent and Potomac Rivers, Maryland’s tell of those early beginnings while others explore is bordered by shops, galleries and Swimming, fishing, boating, and verdant peninsula has fostered a traditional lifestyle restaurants. The town’s wharf was camping are a few of the activities the area’s rich maritime and military history. Here, anchored in the natural bounty of the Tidewater. once a busy steamboat landing and in this bay setting crowned by a you’ll find lighthouses, Civil War sites and even a is now a waterfront park accessible lighthouse. A museum recounts the Southern Maryland boasts a thousand miles of shoreline museum dedicated to the latest in naval technology. by boat. site’s vivid history as a Civil War with fossil-laden cliffs, quiet tidal inlets and sandy beaches. The expansive tidewater landscape makes for great prison camp. The result of this unique geography is a maritime heritage paddling and great cycling while Leonardtown on Leonardtown Water Trail and Winery of skipjacks, steamboats and lighthouses, a network of Breton Bay offers dining, shopping and year-round 22500 Washington Street, Leonardtown, MD 20650 Sotterley Plantation scenic byways joining resort towns and picturesque fish- events. At the peninsula’s southern tip, marinas and 3310-475-9791 • http://leonardtown.somd.com 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD 20636 ing communities and an abundance of state and national The Port of Leonardtown Public 800-681-0850 • www.sotterley.org charter boats lie adjacent to some of the Bay’s richest parks offering a diverse variety of water-based recreational Park shares the site with the Port This 18th-century Tidewater activities. fishing grounds. Come and relax, enjoy and explore of Leonardtown Winery. The park Plantation overlooking the where the Potomac meets the Chesapeake. serves as the launch point for Patuxent River features a manor a three-mile paddling trail down house of unique construction. The the McIntosh Run and out onto 90-acre site includes gardens, Greenwell State Park Breton Bay. The trail terminates outbuildings, a slave cabin and 25420 Rosedale Manor Lane, Hollywood, MD 20636 at the Leonardtown Wharf Park which lies just below nature trails. 301-373-9775 • www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands Leonardtown Square. Southern Maryland is just a short drive from Baltimore, Located along the Patuxent St. Clement’s Island Museum and Washington D.C., Annapolis and Richmond. River, the 596-acre park Patuxent River Naval Air Museum St. Clement’s Island offers numerous hiking trails, 22156 Three Notch Road, Lexington Park, MD 20653 38370 Point Breeze Road, Colton’s Point, MD 20626 a canoe and kayak launch, 301-863-7418 • www.paxmuseum.com 301-769-2222 • www.stmarysmd.com/recreate a boat dock, beach and This official US Navy museum is the nation’s only museum The museum tells the story of fully accessible meeting and dedicated to naval aviation Maryland’s founding which took COUNTY WELCOME CENTERS lodging facilities. research, development, place on nearby St. Clement’s Crain Memorial Welcome Center testing and evaluation. Island. A massive cross erected Historic St. Mary’s City Calvert County 12480 Crain Highway Newburg, MD 20664 The museum features an on the island commemorates that Calvert County Department of Economic Development 301-259-2500 • www.charlescounty.org 18751 Hogaboom Lane (off Route 5) outdoor aircraft park as well first landing and shares the site 175 Main Street, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 Calvert County Visitor Center at Fairview St. Mary’s City, MD 20686 as indoor exhibits. with Blackistone Lighthouse. The 800-331-9771 • www.ecalvert.com 8120 Southern Maryland Boulevard, Owings, MD 20736 240-895-4990 or 800-SMC-1634 • www.stmaryscity.org island is accessible only by boat or seasonal water taxi. 410-257-5381 Charles County Maryland’s premier outdoor living history museum is Piney Point Lighthouse Museum and Park Charles County Government – Office of Tourism Calvert County Visitor Center at Solomons on the site of the state’s first capital and the fourth 44701 Lighthouse Road, Piney Point, MD 20674 St. George Island P.O. Box 2150, 200 Baltimore Street, La Plata, MD 20646 14175 Solomons Island Road South, Solomons, MD 20688 permanent British settlement 800-766-3386 • www.charlescounty.org 410-326-6027 301-994-1471 • www.stmarysmd.com/recreate/museums 800-327-0923 • [email protected] in the New World. Visit the The oldest lighthouse on the Potomac This low-lying island near the mouth of the Potomac River St. Mary’s County Welcome Center at Charlotte Hall St. Mary’s County Maryland Dove, the Godiah now sits on a 6-acre beach-front park. is separated from the mainland by a narrow channel of St. Mary’s County Tourism 37575 Charlotte Hall School Road, Charlotte Hall, MD 20626 Spray Plantation, the Indian 301-884-7059 The museum recounts the site’s water. The area has camping, 23115 Leonard Hall Drive, P.O. Box 653, Leonardtown, MD 20650 Hamlet and the St. John’s 800-327-9023 • www.visitstmarysmd.com history and features a collection of lodging and waterside dining Site Museum. historic Chesapeake Bay sailing and a public landing, and is Regional/State This publication was funded, in part, by the vessels. home to the Chesapeake Bay www.destinationsouthernmaryland.com Southern Maryland Heritage Area Consortium and the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority. ©2012 Field Lab. 4

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