Day 10, the final day, of my road trip back in October was a spent driving from DC back to Connecticut and of course I had some stops planned!

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First stop on the return leg of my trip was to Fort McHenry in Baltimore MD.   Interestingly, Fort McHenry is the only site in the National Park System that is designated as an Historic Shrine.

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The fort from a distance:

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Looking out to the harbor:

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Cannonballs:

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Inside the fort (several years after the War of 1812, the second story and porches were added):

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The guns of war:

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Rampart (as in “o’er the ramparts we watched”) #4:

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An interesting bit of historical trivia I learned at Fort McHenry was that in 1861, several members of the Maryland state legislature were imprisoned in the jail cells at the fort to prevent them from voting to secede from the Union.

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My “America: F**k Yeah!” Road Trip: