You Can Help Save Fort McHenry - Baltimore, MD - Signs of History on Waymarking.com

The plaque says, "While the British attack laster 25 hours, nature's assault of rain, snow, freezing and thawing continues ever day.

Erosion represents a breach in the fort's defenses against the elements. Once the grass dies and the earth is exposed, it is only a matter of time before the damage spreads and the very fabric of the original fort literally washes away. Throughout the fort's history the military has sought ways to keep the fort's earthworks intact by preventing livestock and people from climbing the earthen mounds.

As a new unit of the National Park Service in 1933, the government had to balance making the fort accessible to a greater number of visitors while preserving the historic earthworks. As part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" program to create jobs amid the mass unemployment of the Great Depression, laborers from the Works Projects Administration restored much of the old fort. During August of 1938 they laid thousands of feet of brick pathways that are still in use today.

You can help prevent erosion by staying on the brick walkways and not climbing the grassy earthworks."

Group that erected the marker: NPS Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: Baltimore, MD, USA URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed

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