{"id":26717,"date":"2019-04-01T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26717"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:48:24","slug":"point-lookout-state-park-hosts-cleanup-at-historic-civil-war-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/01\/point-lookout-state-park-hosts-cleanup-at-historic-civil-war-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Lookout State Park Hosts Cleanup at Historic Civil War Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Annual Event Offers Insight Into Park&#8217;s Significant Past<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2913\/33476789660_7b7cab2da2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of volunteers painting and landscaping at Point Lookout State Park\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/>Volunteers are invited to <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/pages\/southern\/pointlookout.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Point Lookout State Park <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 6 help maintain and restore the park&#8217;s historic Civil War Fort #3 and prison pen, as part of the annual Park Day preservation event sponsored by the American Battlefield Trust.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hosted by The Friends of Point Lookout Inc., Saturday\u2019s cleanup takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition to helping with the upkeep of this valuable site, volunteers will learn more about the park\u2019s significance and its role during the American Revolution, Civil War and the War of 1812. Weather permitting, tours of the site will be available to participants upon conclusion of the day\u2019s activities.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participants should bring work gloves and \u00a0meet at historic Fort #3. All tools required for projects will be provided. Light refreshments and light snacks will be provided.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Park Day is an annual hands-on preservation event of \u00a0the American Battlefield Trust, in which thousands of volunteers will participate in 32 states. The American Battlefield Trust is a national nonprofit land preservation organization devoted to the protection of America\u2019s hallowed battlegrounds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More information is available by contacting Bob Crickenberger at 301-872-5688 or by email at crickenberger@comcast.net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Event Offers Insight Into Park&#8217;s Significant Past Volunteers are invited to Point Lookout State Park April 6 help maintain and restore the park&#8217;s historic Civil War Fort #3 and prison pen, as part of the annual Park Day preservation event sponsored by the American Battlefield Trust. Hosted by The Friends of Point Lookout Inc.,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/01\/point-lookout-state-park-hosts-cleanup-at-historic-civil-war-site\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[3647,3648,3959,3410,3957],"class_list":["post-26717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-american-revolution","tag-civil-war","tag-friends-of-point-lookout","tag-point-lookout-state-park","tag-the-war-of-1812"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26717"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26727,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717\/revisions\/26727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}