Rock Point, Maryland

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|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|postal_code = 20664{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/20664|title=Rock Point MD ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2023|access-date=April 18, 2023}}

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Rock Point is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland, United States.{{gnis|591157}}

Description

Rock Point is located near Cobb Island at the mouth of the Wicomico River. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 107.{{Cite web| url=https://www.census.gov| title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Rock Point CDP, Maryland| publisher=United States Census Bureau| accessdate=August 3, 2012}}

Rock Point was named for the rockfish, or striped bass. Today Rock Point is largely a vacation land, but in the early 20th century, Rock Point had a large hotel serving summer vacationers and winter duck hunters, a steamboat wharf and warehouse, and a sizable general store. Fish were caught by a net hauled between two boats at some distance from each other, a method then called "Hauling Seine". Rock Point also had an oyster shucking and packing plant, which served as a crab steaming and picking plant during the summer months, enabling the shipment of finfish, oysters and crabs in season to restaurants in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The packing house was owned by three prominent Rock Point families, named after two of them as "Hill & Lloyd" with the third (silent) partner being one John William Furbush (1882–1963). Today, Furbush Road at Rock Point is named after him. One of his descendants, a grandson, James Carroll Simms (1928–present), is the author of Searching for Identity, Truth and Meaning.

General Billy Mitchell, a duck hunter, was a regular patron during these early years. Earlier, Rock Point had become a center of Confederate activity, and was occupied by 300 Union troops throughout the Civil War. Columbus Lancaster, who owned the old general store, was arrested and put in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington on suspicion of collaborating with the Confederates. Rock Hall is the ancestral home of the Lancaster family, and was originally the {{convert|490|acre|km2|adj=on}} dowry of Elizabeth Neale at her wedding to John Lancaster in 1731. As of 2009, this home has been owned by the same family since it was granted to James Neale in 1641, as part of Wolleston Manor."Old Maryland Landmarks" by Robert E.T. Pogue, 1972.{{Nonspecific|date=May 2010}}

"Charleston" was an {{convert|800|acre|km2|adj=on}} plantation, worked by 100 slaves, on Charleston Creek, north of Rock Point. The plantation was part of Wolleston Manor. Its owner in the early 19th century was Daniel Jenifer, a minister to Austria and a member of the United States Congress. Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were among the many prominent guests whom Jenifer entertained at Wolleston Manor.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

Demographics

{{US Census population

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|2020= 82

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2010{{Cite web|title= 2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Maryland|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-22.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 2020

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Rock Point first appeared as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. Census.

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|+Rock Point CDP, Maryland – Racial and ethnic composition
{{nobold|Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.}}

!Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)

!Pop 2010{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Rock Point CDP, Maryland|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2467500&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=United States Census Bureau}}

!{{partial|Pop 2020}}{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Rock Point CDP, Maryland|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2467500&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=United States Census Bureau}}

!% 2010

!{{partial|% 2020}}

White alone (NH)

|88

|style='background: #ffffe6; |71

|82.24%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |86.59%

Black or African American alone (NH)

|8

|style='background: #ffffe6; |5

|7.48%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |6.10%