Fort Ritchie
Fort Ritchie in Cascade, Maryland was a military installation southwest of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania and southeast of Waynesboro in the area of South Mountain. Following the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, it closed in 1998.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Meteorological station
- Description: former American military installation
- Also known as: “Camp Albert C. Ritchie” and “Camp Ritchie”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Raven Rock Mountain Complex and Monterey Pass.
Raven Rock Mountain Complex
Military installation
The Raven Rock Mountain Complex, also known as Site R and simply The Rock, is a U.S. military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. Raven Rock Mountain Complex is situated 3,400 feet east of Fort Ritchie.
Monterey Pass
Mountain saddle
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Monterey Pass is a 1,300 feet mountain pass located in Franklin County, southern Pennsylvania. Monterey Pass is situated 2 miles west of Fort Ritchie.
Victor Cullen Center, Old Administration Building
Building
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The Victor Cullen Center, Old Administration Building is a historic building located at Sabillasville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, stone and frame Colonial Revival style structure located on a hillside with four stone chimneys, two on each gable end. Victor Cullen Center, Old Administration Building is situated 2 miles southwest of Fort Ritchie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monterey and Blue Ridge Summit.
Monterey
Hamlet
Monterey, Pennsylvania, is an unincorporated community which was added to the USGS Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979. After the site was surveyed c. 1839 for the never-completed Tapeworm Railroad, the summit community was settled on the… Monterey is situated 2 miles west of Fort Ritchie.
Blue Ridge Summit
Village
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Blue Ridge Summit is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States, southwest of Gettysburg in the central part of the state, adjoining Pennsylvania's southern border with Maryland. Blue Ridge Summit is situated 2 miles west of Fort Ritchie.
Sabillasville
Village
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Sabillasville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 354. Sabillasville is situated 2½ miles southwest of Fort Ritchie.
Fort Ritchie
- Category: military base
- Location: Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Luxembourgish—“Fort Ritchie” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Camp Ritchie”
- French: “fort Ritchie”
- French: “Fort Ritchie”
- German: “Camp Ritchie”
- German: “Military Intelligence Training Center”
- Irish: “Fort Ritchie”
- Italian: “forte Ritchie”
- Japanese: “フォート・リッチー”
- Ladin: “Fort Ritchie”
- Luxembourgish: “Camp Ritchie”
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