[1] Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary (a stop on the Patuxent Water Trail)[2] and the colonial town of Pig Point (alternately referred to as Bristol Landing and Leon at times) are on the Patuxent River waterfront portion of Bristol.

Pig Point saw War of 1812 action[3] and was the county's largest steamboat port on the Patuxent in the mid-19th century.

[4] Pig Point is a very significant Native American Early Archaic Period archaeological site.

[7][8] The James Owens Farm, listed on the National Register of Historic Places,[9] and the southern terminus of the Stephanie Roper Highway portion of Maryland Route 4 are also located in Bristol.

[10] The following year it was enlarged and renovated, growing to 200 students (and four teachers and a heating and rodent problem) by 1969[11] after the county was ordered to desegregate schools in 1966.