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Article: State begins plans for 70-acre park on Kent Island
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2007
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Right now, it doesn't look like the type of place you would want
to go to get in touch with nature.
Piles of steel pipes collect in large quantity off in the grass;
broken-down construction machines rust in the weather; a lone deer
comes out of the trees into the industrial site, looking briefly
toward the collection of barges floating in the water to the south.
Even with an aerial view, the Langenfelder Marine, Inc., portion
of the more than 70 acres on the north side of Kent Island - which
will be purchased by the state for $7.2 million, pending further
study of the titles to a lake and pier - looks unfriendly, situated
as a swath of white shells and rock among the green trees.
But the ...