"One of Maryland's most mysterious ruins can't be seen from any nearby road. In fact, in summer you could stand within 20 feet of it and see nothing but the trees and vines that are slowly demolishing the fragile structure.
But behind that green curtain, off Garrison Forest Road in Owings Mills, you would find stone walls two stories high, pierced by rows of vertical slit windows that suggest gun embrasures.
Scott Frenkil, 53, a Lutherville mortgage broker, thought he'd found a forgotten old fort when he first saw it as a kid in the 1970s.
But behind that green curtain, off Garrison Forest Road in Owings Mills, you would find stone walls two stories high, pierced by rows of vertical slit windows that suggest gun embrasures.
Scott Frenkil, 53, a Lutherville mortgage broker, thought he'd found a forgotten old fort when he first saw it as a kid in the 1970s.
Experts who have seen it seem to agree the structure probably dates at least to the 18th century. The evidence suggests it was modified several times and used as a barn in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
But Frenkil has accumulated a pile of documents that convince him that the original structure was built in the 1690s as a fortified house, or trading post. Perhaps it served as part of a defensive line, established in the 1690s to protect settlers fearful of Indian attacks."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-greenspring-fort-20110221,0,7106720.story
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