On 4/16/1961, a category F3 tornado 23.9 miles away from the place center caused between $50,000 and $500,000 in damages. Fort Ritchie-area historical earthquake activity is near Maryland state average.
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The lakeside Fort Ritchie Community Center was once the officers’ club. As the property makes this next transition, let’s hope that the contributions of all the men who helped conquer the 20th century’s greatest crisis, and the training they received here, are well remembered. Ben lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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When the need for enemy interrogators flagged after World War II, Camp Ritchie, which became Fort Ritchie, served the army’s communications needs during the Cold War. But in 1995, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission pegged Fort Ritchie as an expendable property and in 1998, it was decommissioned. Fort Ritchie will never serve the military again, but there is the promise that the property will repurposed around many of the original features of the military base.
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I was assigned to the Provost Marshal's office. One of my first assignments was to penetrate the underground Pentagon. Ft Ritchie is in Maryland close to the Pennsylvania border. Across the border in Pa is Site R. They knew I would be caught. With some good help and a fake pass I got in and out and went back in again.
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Latest news from Fort Ritchie, MD collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: German (40.9%), Irish (21.6%), United States (14.1%), Czech (3.3%), Polish (3.3%), Slovak (3.3%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Land area: 0.98 square miles.
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Fort Ritchie, Maryland and the Remnants of an Indispensable Allied Weapon. Posted on 29 July, 2013 by Ben Swenson. The farmers of west-central Maryland panicked when the German military spilled out of the woods. The invasion had begun.
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Fort Ritchie closed in 1998 under the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The property was sold to Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) for mixed-use development. As the 2007 Recession pressed on, PenMar Development Corporation took back ownership of the property in 2012.
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Underground Pentagon Army Contends Fort Ritchie Project is still Secret. Washington, Nov 7 AP. --The Army said today it still considers information on its underground alternate Pentagon in Maryland secret. It took this stand despite the fact that the Army Engineer's Office here has issued a book containing some data on the 35 million dollar project at Ft Ritchie, Md.
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Tornado activity: Fort Ritchie-area historical tornado activity is near Maryland state average. It is 1% smaller than the overall U.S. average. On 5/22/1983, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 13.1 miles away from the Fort Ritchie place center caused between $5000 and $50,000 in damages.
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For the larger census-designated place, see Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Fort Ritchie at Cascade, Maryland was a military installation southwest of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania and southeast of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania in the area of South Mountain. Following the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, it closed in 1998.
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when was fort ritchie md closed
The Fort Ritchie, Maryland was closed in 1998. Fort Ritchie in Maryland was closed in 1998.