Drum Point Lighthouse

Drum Point Lighthouse is a memorial in Calvert County, Maryland. Drum Point Lighthouse is situated nearby to the tourism office Solomons Visitor’s Center, as well as near Calvert Marine Museum.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Calvert Marine Museum and Drum Point Light.

Calvert Marine Museum

Museum

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The Calvert Marine Museum is a museum located in Solomons, Maryland. The museum has three main themes: Among its exhibits are the Drum Point Light, the bugeye Wm.

Drum Point Light Station also known as Drum Point Lighthouse is one of four surviving Chesapeake Bay screw-pile lighthouses. Originally located off Drum Point at the mouth of the Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, it is now an exhibit at the Calvert Marine Museum. Drum Point Light is situated 530 feet east of Drum Point Lighthouse.

J. C. Lore Oyster House

Historic building

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J. C. Lore Oyster House, also known as J. C. Lore and Sons, Inc, Seafood Packing Plant, is located at 14430 Solomons Island Road South, in Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland. J. C. Lore Oyster House is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Drum Point Lighthouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Johnstown and Solomons.

Johnstown

Neighborhood

Johnstown is an unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The historic Preston-on-the-Patuxent house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Solomons

Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.

For the island chain in the South Pacific, see Solomon Islands. Solomons is a resort area in Southern Maryland, near the Patuxent Naval Air Station. Solomons within a two-hour drive of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Annapolis.

Dowell

Locality

Dowell is a small, rural unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland, United States, located immediately north of Solomons. The city once had its own zip code, that being 20629, but it was changed to 20688, shared with Solomons.

Drum Point Lighthouse

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “1883-1962 This lighthouse, installed in 1883, originally stood 125 yards offshore at the entrance of the Patuxent River to the Chesapeake Bay. The foundations on which the cottage living quarters rest consist of seven wrought iron screw piles, hand bored”
Category: historic site
Location: Calvert County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.33137° or 38° 19′ 53″ north

Longitude

-76.46519° or 76° 27′ 55″ west

Open location code

87C58GJM+GW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12945679410

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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