Chapel Point State Park | |
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Location | Charles County, Maryland, United States |
Nearest town | La Plata, Maryland |
Coordinates | 38°28′09″N77°00′50″W / 38.46917°N 77.01389°W Coordinates: 38°28′09″N77°00′50″W / 38.46917°N 77.01389°W [1] |
Area | 821 acres (332 ha) [2] |
Elevation | 138 ft (42 m) [1] |
Designation | Maryland state park <! |
Established | 1972 |
Administrator | Maryland Department of Natural Resources |
Website | Chapel Point State Park |
Chapel Point State Park is an undeveloped public recreation area located on the Port Tobacco River, a tributary of the Potomac, in Charles County, Maryland. [3] The state park offers fishing and hunting. Adjacent to the park, St. Ignatius Church and cemetery, the oldest continuous Roman Catholic parish in the United States, offers a scenic river view.
In the early 20th century, Chapel Point had an amusement park [4] with facilities for roller skating and social functions. It also played host to the first Charles County Fair. [5] The property, which had been Jesuit land since it was patented in 1638, was acquired from the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources in 1972. [6]
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Erected 1813 by David Shriver, Jr.,
Sup't of the "Cumberland Road". This 80 foot span
was the largest stone arch in America
at the time. It was continuously
used from 1813 to 1933.
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A Smithsonian trinomial is a unique identifier assigned to archaeological sites in many states in the United States. They are composed of one or two digits coding for the state, typically two letters coding for the county or county-equivalent within the state, and one or more sequential digits representing the order in which the site was listed in that county. The Smithsonian Institution developed the site number system in the 1930s and 1940s, but it no longer maintains the system. Trinomials are now assigned by the individual states. The 48 states then in the union were assigned numbers in alphabetical order. Alaska was assigned number 49 and Hawaii was assigned number 50, after those states were admitted to the union. There is no Smithsonian trinomial number assigned for the District of Columbia or any United States territory.