Teardown in Edgewood: Old Army buildings to be replaced by new housing

(Baltimore Sun) - Harford County officials will gather in Edgewood on Thursday for a groundbreaking, an event they could more accurately call a ground-shaking. Washington Court, whose 51 boarded-up brick buildings date to the 1940s and once housed Army officers, will be razed to make way for a residential complex that should prove attractive to the influx of new residents arriving as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process. Continued

Photo: It was a simpler time, when good country folk made poison gas for a living. (Library of Congress)