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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV4_the-old-united-states-arsenal_Pikesville-MD.html
Built in 1816 after the close of the War of 1812 as an arsenal. Removed to a point of safety beyond Baltimore. Used during the War between the States and later as a Confederate Home. Now the property of the State of Maryland (1935).
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU0_the-old-court-road_Pikesville-MD.html
Originally an Indian trail, then used by the Rangers from the Garrison Fort to keep back the Indians. Later used as a road to the Court at Joppa Town, the County Seat of Baltimore County from 1712 to 1768 and the rival of Baltimore.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTX_sudbrook-park_Pikesville-MD.html
Early romantic suburb designed in 1889 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., father of landscape architecture in America, on 204 acres of James Howard McHenry's "Sudbrook" estate. Olmsted designed a naturalistic landscape with curvilinear roads intersect…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTW_the-garrison-fort_Pikesville-MD.html
Built about 1695 as headquarters for a troop of mounted rangers to patrol paths from the Patapsco to the Susquehanna as a protection against hostile Indians. It was nine miles from nearest white inhabitants when built.