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  2. Calvert Cliffs State Park - Wikipedia

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    Calvert Cliffs State Park. Calvert Cliffs State Park is a public recreation area in Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland, that protects a portion of the cliffs that extend for 24 miles along the eastern flank of the Calvert Peninsula on the west side of Chesapeake Bay from Chesapeake Beach southward to Drum Point. [4] [5] The state park is known for ...

  3. Calvert Formation - Wikipedia

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    Calvert County. The Calvert Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. It preserves fossils dating back to the early to middle Miocene epoch of the Neogene period. It is one of the three formations which make up the Calvert Cliffs, all of which are part of the Chesapeake Group .

  4. Calvert County, Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Calvert County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 92,783. [1] Its county seat is Prince Frederick. [2] The county's name is derived from the family name of the Barons of Baltimore, the proprietors of the English Colony of Maryland.

  5. Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. /  38.43194°N 76.44222°W  / 38.43194; -76.44222. The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant ( CCNPP) is a nuclear power plant located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay near Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland in the Mid-Atlantic United States. It is the only nuclear power plant in the state of Maryland.

  6. Scientists Cliffs, Maryland - Wikipedia

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    591239 [1] Scientists' Cliffs is an unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. Other names used for the community include Annes Aggravation, Flippos Folly, Pathologists Quagmire. The private community was first established in 1935 as a summer colony for scientists by Flippo and Annie Gravatt.

  7. List of Maryland state parks - Wikipedia

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    This list of Maryland state parks includes the state parks and state battlefields listed in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources's current acreage report. Generally, the Maryland Park Service, a unit of and under the authority of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), is the governing body for these parks, although some have been turned over to local authorities.

  8. South Mountain State Park - Wikipedia

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    South Mountain State Park. /  39.55417°N 77.59972°W  / 39.55417; -77.59972. South Mountain State Park is a public recreation area that runs for nearly the entire length of South Mountain through Washington and Frederick counties in Maryland. [4] The state park is contiguous with several other national, state and local parks on the ...

  9. Point Lookout State Park - Wikipedia

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    Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying Point Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The state park preserves the site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp and the Point Lookout Light ...