This article is sponsored by Blank Kim Injury Law, the worker's compensation attorneys in Crownsville. Our law firm encourages you to learn more about Crownsville and dig deeper into the historical events that occurred here.
Crownsville, Maryland, is a census-designated place in the county of Anne Arundel. Located at 39.127 degrees north latitude and 76.3554 degrees west longitude, the community offers its residents a scenic waterfront view and easy access to the metropolitan areas. Crownsville has a total area of 5.1 square miles, according to the United States Census Bureau. Read more about the town of Fairwood.
The General's Highway Corridor Park is one of the parks that serve the residents living in the community of Crownsville, Maryland. Located on Crownsville Rd., the park is run by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks. Amenities included at the General's Highway Corridor Park are four baseball diamonds, two multipurpose fields, a tennis court, a picnic area and a playground.
The second-largest renaissance festival in the U.S., the Maryland Renaissance Festival is held annually in Crownsville. The festival is set in a fictional 16th-century English village called Revel Grove and runs for nine weekends. Stretching over 27 acres of woods and fields, the festival has more than 130 craft shops and 42 food stalls. In addition, there are eight large theaters, four small stages, a children's area and a jousting yard set up for usage during the festival. An elephant and camel ride are also available for purchase. However, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Born Free USA have been protesting against this since 2014.
The Anne Arundel County Fair is another festivity in Crownsville, MD. Located on General's Hwy., the fairground hosts various events from spring to fall every year. Some of their traditional events are the Craft Festivals, Tractor Pulls, Halloween Happening, Flea Market, Fair Week and Rodeo. Other events that are also held at the Anne Arundel County Fair are the Soberfest, The Viking Experience, Maryland Chicken Wing Festival, Dance Academy, Nextival and Irish Festival.
Opened in 1911 until 2004, the Crownsville Hospital Center was a psychiatric hospital for patients of color. The center, initially named the "Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland," was crowded and understaffed. The first patients to the hospitals had to build the hospital's first buildings. Male patients were required to do manual labor on the land, while the females sewed clothes for the staff and residents of the hospital. Patients were also used as test subjects for gruesome practices like lobotomies, insulin shock therapy and pneumoencephalography. If the patients didn't die from the hospital's experiments and poor living conditions, smallpox, scarlet fever and Tuberculosis also overtook the center. It is said that nearly all the patients who were admitted into the Crownsville Hospital Center died there. Henrietta Lacks' daughter, Lucille Elsie Pleasant, was one of the patients who died while undergoing treatments there. At just 15-years-old, her autopsy showed signs of abuse. Now left abandoned, the Crownsville Hospital Center has over 1,600 unmarked graves of the patients who were buried on the property. Unfortunately, these graves were only with numbers.
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