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Fort Holabird was located in the southeast corner of Baltimore and northwest of the suburban developments of Dundalk, Maryland, in surrounding Baltimore County, fronting on Holabird Avenue between Broening Highway and Dundalk Avenue. From 1941 until the end of World War II, the military installation grew to include approximately 350 acres and ...
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814. The fort was built in 1798 and was ...
Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation located in Maryland, that includes the Defense Information School, the Defense Media Activity, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, the Defense Courier Service, Defense Information Systems Agency headquarters, and the U.S. Navy's Cryptologic Warfare Group Six.
Coordinates: 39°36′45″N 76°05′30″W. Captain Russel's House in 1943. United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge ( USNTC Bainbridge) was the U.S. Navy Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland, on the bluffs of the northeast bank of the Susquehanna River. It was active from 1942 to 1976 under the Commander of the Fifth Naval ...
Andrews Air Force Base is located at 38°48′13″N 76°52′17″W (38.803490, −76.871508), [17] a few miles southeast of Washington, D.C. near the town of Morningside in Prince George's County, Maryland. It is delineated as a census-designated place by the United States Census Bureau.
College Park. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt. Naval Air Systems Command. Patuxent River. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda.
Added to NRHP. April 14, 2015. Fort Carroll, next to the Key Bridge. Fort Carroll is a 3.4-acre (1.4 ha) artificial island and abandoned hexagonal sea fort in the middle of the Patapsco River, just south of Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), a signer of the Declaration of Independence .
Fort Howard (Maryland) Coordinates: 39°11′54″N 076°26′37″W. One of the fort's two mortar pits, 2019. Fort Howard was a military installation located on the North Point peninsula, overlooking the main channel of the Patapsco River leading into the harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Although militarily important since the early 19th ...