Fort Holabird, United States Army post in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1918 to 1973
Fort Holabird is a former military base in Baltimore, Maryland, located close to the Patapsco River on the eastern edge of the city. The site is made up of plain wooden barracks, large repair workshops, and storage buildings laid out to support vehicle maintenance and troop movement.
The base opened in 1918 as a vehicle-training camp during World War I and quickly became a center for testing military trucks and other motorized equipment. During the Cold War it shifted to intelligence training before closing in 1973, leaving behind a handful of original structures.
The name honors General Samuel B. Holabird, a Civil War-era logistics officer whose work shaped how the US Army managed supplies. Visitors who walk the grounds today can still read the layout of the site as a working military compound, with its plain buildings and open yards.
The site sits on the eastern side of Baltimore and is easiest to reach by car, though public transit stops nearby. There are no regular guided tours, so it is worth checking in advance which parts of the grounds are open to visitors.
In 1919 a Navy blimp exploded while landing on the site, injuring hundreds of people and shattering windows about a mile (1.6 km) away. Decades later, in the early 1970s, the grounds were used to house key witnesses during the Watergate investigation.
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