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Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area. Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area is a nature reserve near Owings Mills in western Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S. [1] The site is designated both as a Maryland Wildland (1,526 acres) and as a Natural Environment Area (1,900 acres) and is part of the Maryland Wildlands Preservation System.
The Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area (Soldiers Delight NEA) is an environmentally sensitive area consisting of 1,900 acres (770 ha) of land, and a visitor center, that is owned by the state of Maryland and managed by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, consists of about 1,900 acres (7.7 km 2) of land in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Much of the area of Soldiers Delight contains a serpentine barren that contains a number of rare and endangered species of plants.
Name County Area [1] Estab-lished Image Remarks acres ha North Point State Battlefield: Baltimore: 9 acres 3.6 ha 2015: Preserves undeveloped land where War of 1812's Battle of North Point in the larger Battle of Baltimore on September 12, 1814 (Defenders Day) was fought with the invading British Army.
The Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area is located in western Baltimore County, Maryland. [1] Much of the area of the Soldiers Delight NEA, which totals 1,900 acres (7.7 km 2 ) of protected land, contains a serpentine barren that contains a number of rare and endangered species of plants.
Google Hybrid Map. 2006. Target building, Soldiers Delight Visitor Center. Holmgren, Noel H. 1998. Illustrated Companion to Gleason and Cronquist's Manual. Illustrations of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern U. S. and Adjacent Canada. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458, 937 pages. Maryland Department of Natural Resources. 2003.
The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) describes the district as follows: . The Bare Hills Historic District, covering approximately 275 acres, takes its name from the geological formation it in part encompasses, a promontory of Serpentine (“copper rock”) around which the Jones Falls flows on its way to Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay.
Fort Frederick State Park is a public recreation and historic preservation area on the Potomac River surrounding the restored Fort Frederick, a fortification active in the French and Indian War (1754–1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). [5] The state park lies south of the town of Big Pool, Maryland.