The range marker

The Navy and the influence of the Torpedo Testing Station on Piney Point and St George Island.
“The Navy acquired the property in 1941,” according to a 2013 site assessment report by the Maryland Department of the Environment, “and constructed the Piney Point Torpedo Test Center to test munitions being supplied by the Alexandria Torpedo Factory located Many of the range markers are still standing today, serving as witnesses of a bygone era when over a thousand enlisted men and their families helped to diversify this small community. Many descendants still call Piney Point their home to this day and even some of the homes themselves come from that erain Alexandria, Virginia. The property was excessed in 1959 and transferred to Piney Point, Inc. in 1960. The property was transferred to the Harry Lundeberg School in December 1969  and remains under their ownership.”
The torpedoes were tested from a barge anchored in the Potomac River at Piney Point, according to Warren Wince, 97, who served at the testing station during World War II.
Many of the range markers are still standing today, serving as witnesses of a bygone era when over a thousand enlisted men and their families helped to diversify this small community. Many descendants still call Piney Point their home to this day and even some of the homes themselves come from that era.
The Lexington Park Leader Jack Russell 2018