Fort Howard

After a 10-year hiatus, Buzz Chriest and his Dundalk-based Captain Aisquith's Sharp Shooters were back in full force yesterday - re-enactors nearly 200 strong re-imagining the area's key role in the War of 1812, delaying the redcoats' advance on the North Point Peninsula. "Ten years ago, they thought they could do this without a re-enactment," Chriest, 67, said of the once-annual Defenders' Day celebration, which had vanished after 1996 from Fort Howard Park in Edgemere. "The public comes for the fireworks and the Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]

A four-alarm fire that destroyed a cabinet manufacturer's building in Dundalk is estimated to have caused $1 million in damages, county fire officials said. The investigation was continuing yesterday into the cause of the fire Thursday at the Harvey Henry & Sons building in the 8000 block of Stansbury Road, officials said. The fire, fueled by glue and other combustibles, raced through the company's single-story, 150-foot-long concrete building, leaving dozens without jobs. No injuries were reported.

There are things about the war he would like to forget, but when Joseph L. Thomas Sr. and his fellow veterans get together at Fort Howard Veterans Park overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, the conversation inevitably turns to remembering. Thomas, 80, grew up around the corner from the historic spot, enlisted in the Army shortly after World War II began, and marched across Belgium, Germany and France in what seemed like a nonstop firefight. He remembers family members and friends who never made it back.

Fire burns Rosewood building Fire officials are searching for the cause of a three-alarm fire that damaged the former administration building at the Rosewood Center in Owings Mills, state fire officials said. Shortly before 2 a.m. yesterday, medics responding to an unrelated call on the Rosewood campus spotted the fire at the two-story building at 200 Rosewood Lane, county fire officials said. About 90 firefighters from Baltimore City and Baltimore and Carroll counties brought the fire under control after about 4 1/2 hours, said Deputy State Fire Marshal W. Faron Taylor.

A view of the water, a fitness center, a live performance theater and a history museum all in one live-in community. Retirement doesn't sound half bad. Within the next decade, military veterans in Baltimore County will have a community of their own, Bayside of Fort Howard, on the campus of the former Fort Howard Veterans Affairs Medical Center at the county's southeastern tip. The veteran-focused retirement community will consist of four "villages" designed...

In 1958, a speculator thought long-abandoned Fort Carroll, seven miles south of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, would make an impressive gambling den. How many casinos, after all, have 10-foot-thick granite walls and gunports? But 46 years after Benjamin N. Eisenberg, a local lawyer, bought the bastion, hoping to turn it into a slots venue, it remains a ghost fort that's being overrun by trees, vines and weeds. Hundreds of sea gulls, egrets and herons have taken possession of the pre-Civil War fortress.

On May 6, 2004, JAMES PHILLIP STEWART, SR., beloved husband of Laura A. (nee Komornik), devoted father of Kathylene Kellar, James P. Stewart, Jr., Kelly Di Fatta and Kimberly Stewart; loving stepfather of John J. Stone, dear brother of Charles D. Stewart and his wife Rosalie; also survived by several grandchildren and great-grandchildren Friends may call at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Ave., on Saturday and Sunday, 3...

In a project that could serve as a national model, the 95-acre campus of the Fort Howard Veterans Affairs Medical Center in eastern Baltimore County will be redeveloped into a $100 million cutting-edge care facility for veterans, featuring apartments, waterfront rental homes, a large marina and retail shops. The Department of Veterans Affairs has signed a memorandum of understanding with Federal Development LLC of Washington, which will become the first private vendor in the nation to lease a department-owned tract of this size, officials said.