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Electricity comes to Southern Maryland

Point Lookout Hotel _ Whitten

 I was talking to someone the other day about when I first took over Pt. Lookout Hotel. I talked about the complexity of the electrical system at the hotel and how nobody told me where anything was. When I walked in, there were quite a number of boxes, some with as many as twenty or [...]

Letter from Point Lookout Hotel

Point Lookout Hotel _ Whitten

Point Lookout was the site of a Union Army hospital and prisoner of war camp during the civil war where more than 3,000 Confederate prisoners died. Dubbed the Andersonville of the North, the camp kept prisoners in tents, many without blankets and medical care as harsh winter storms ravaged the point. A monument to the dead is located nearby.

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