Md., Balto. Co. decide against farm: Boat ramp, saving house are possibilities

(Baltimore Sun) State and local officials have backed away from buying a waterfront farm in eastern Baltimore County from a developer, saying they lack funding to acquire the entire 160-acre tract. Instead, officials say they still hope to buy two small pieces of the farm, one for a public boat ramp on Back River and the other to save a deteriorating historic house that witnessed the Battle of North Point in the War of 1812. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Baltimore County had been talking with developer Mark C. Sapperstein about buying Bauer Farm, a partly wooded waterfront tract on which Sapperstein had been planning to build 144 townhouses. Continued

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