Fort Detrick
Welcome to Fort Detrick. We are a premier quad-services installation committed to excellence. As an Army Medical Installation we are home to the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI-Frederick) and 37 other tenant organizations. The primary missions include biomedical research and development, medical materiel management and global telecommunications.
Frederick, MD
Frederick, Maryland is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 52,767.
Frederick has a bridge covered with a mural called the Community Bridge The artist, William Cochran, has been acclaimed for the realism of the painting. Thousands of people sent ideas representing community that appear throughout the stonework of the bridge.
Frederick is the resting place of the author of The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, and of Barbara Fritchie, who was immortalized along with the town in the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Roger Taney, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is from Frederick.
Frederick is home to the Museum of Civil War Medicine, U.S. Army Fort Detrick and the Maryland School for the Deaf. Frederick also includes a minor-league baseball team, the Frederick Keys.
President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Frederick during the Civil War at what was then a train depot at the current intersection of South and Market Streets. The speech is commorated by a plaque. Other important Civil War locations: the Barbara Fritchie house and the nearby Monocacy Battlefield.
Fort Detrick is a United States Army medical installation located in Frederick, Maryland. It is home to the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
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