Point of Rocks, Maryland
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Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466.
Aerial image, 1930
An aerial view of Point of Rocks
Historic St. Paul's Episcopal Church, built in 1841 by enslaved men and women of the Duval Plantation and consecrated in 1843, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Captain Samuel C. Means, who organized the Union Army-aligned Loudoun Rangers
Potomac River
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The Potomac River is in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. It is 405 miles long, with a drainage area
Point of Rocks, Maryland
…the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466. Point of Rocks is named for a rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which was formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Appalachian Mountains. The formation is not visible from the town and can only be…
Great Falls of the Potomac River NPS
In Washington, D.C., the Potomac is crossed by the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
The North Branch between Cumberland, Maryland, and Ridgeley, West Virginia, in 2007
Confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah at Harpers Ferry