Fort Carroll’s foundations were dug 12 to 14 feet below the water line while a steam pile driver pounded pilings deep into harbor waters. Tons of stones were dumped into harbor waters to turn ...

He notes that Fort Carroll was built on the same plan — and by some of the same workmen — as Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., where the Civil War began.

BALTIMORE — Baby oysters will return to Fort Carroll Reef after last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge blocked organizers from planting a new batch. Hundreds of thousands of baby ...

Fort Carroll, named after Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, has been in limbo since construction began in 1848 on the military post.

Afterwards, the spat-on-shell bound for Fort Carroll are moved to submerged cages around the Baltimore Harbor, where they are minded by volunteer “oyster gardeners” for their first year of life.