Spring Grove Psychiatric Hospital

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Spring Grove Psychiatric Hospital In Catonsville, MD // Preliminary digging shows this place may be the end-all to creepy, state-run institutions. “The Nation’s 2nd Oldest Psychiatric Hospital” intertwined with UMBC (Univ. Maryland, Baltimore Campus). Spring Grove Hospital Center, located in Catonsville, Maryland, was founded in 1797, making it the second-oldest continuously operating psychiatric hospital in … Read more

Rosewood Asylum

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Rosewood Asylum Abandoned mental hospital and state training center/school in Owings Mills, Maryland. Hmmm, would that be … an electroshock machine? An hydrotherapy tub? The gauges go up to and exceed 300 degrees. Either way –°F or °C– that’s above the boiling point. The Rosewood Center, originally established in 1888 as the Asylum and Training … Read more

Nike Missile Base Waldorf Maryland

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Nike Missile Base Waldorf Maryland Per SpookyDan / Urban Atrophy: “In the mid-1960s the Naval Research Laboratory built an experimental satellite-communications facility at a former Nike missile control site near (W-45) … used during the Vietnam War as part of a special operation called “Compass Link”, established by the Defense Communications Agency to pass high-quality target … Read more

Fort Howard Veteran Medical Center

Fort Howard

Fort Howard Veteran Medical Center An Endicott period fort named in honor of Colonel John Eager Howard, a distinguished officer of the Maryland Line during the Revolution. It is located on North Point at the Patapsco River entrance. Batteries here are Battery Key (1900 – 1927), Battery Stricker (1899 – 1918), Battery Nicholson (1900 – 1927), Battery Harris (1900 – 1917), Battery Clagett (1901 – … Read more

Crownsville State Hospital for the Negro Insane in Maryland

Crownsville

Crownsville State Hospital for the Negro Insane in Maryland Built in 1910; quickly renamed from “Hospital for the Negro Insane” by an act of Maryland’s legislature, closed in June, 2004. “Thirty-one male Negro mental patients from Montevue Asylum in Frederick county were to clear the land and build a railroad spur to the hospital site. … Read more