Friends of the Crownsville Hospital Patient Cemetery
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FCHPC Facebook Page Learn more about what the FCHPC is doing currently to support the Patient Cemetery.
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Digital Maryland - FCHPC Digital Collection Friends of the Crownsville Hospital Patient Cemetery is a volunteer organization founded by Janice Hayes-Williams, Historian 2004 to oversee the hospital patient cemetery in perpetuity and to honor the patients who died at the Crownsville State Hospital Asylum, formerly the Maryland Hospital for the Negro Insane
Current News
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New York Times - "Can a Decaying Hospital With a Grim History Be Brought Back to Life?" NYT article published on April 17, 2025 discussing the plans for development of the Crownsville Hospital Site that were finalised earlier in 2025.
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"A Fresh Start for 'Maryland's Shame'" - Maryland Today "An Alumna [of UMD] Is Working to Turn a Shuttered Psychiatric Hospital Into a Wellness Site for the Black Community"
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Nonprofit Center opens at old Crownsville Hospital site -WBAL Updates on the development of Crownsville Hospital development aired on August 4, 2025.
Events
Join the Friends of Crownsville Hospital Patient Cemetery for a visitation at the new Say My Name Memorial on October 4, 2025 at 11AM. For more information please email Friendschpc@gmail.com.
Crownsville Hospital Memoral Park
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Crownsville Memoral Park Find out more about the site today and the plans for the future.
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Crownsville Hosptial Memoral Park Master PlanAnne Arundel County's final Master Plan Report published February 12, 2025.
Baltimore Sun Articles
You can find these articles and more by heading to ProQuest.
Anderson, Lynn. "Possible Uses for Campus Studied ; Officials Suggest Closing Crownsville Hospital; Facility is Part of 633-Acre Plot; Neighbors, Ecologists Oppose Residential use." The Sun: 0. Oct 12 2003. ProQuest. Web. 22 Sep. 2014
Stiehm, Jamie. "Historic Sites, New Plans ; Reuse: Annapolis' Proposal to Locate a Horse Park on the Site of Crownsville Hospital Center Or Other Old Facilities Meets with Praise as Well as Concern." The Sun: 0. Aug 28 2005. ProQuest. Web. 22 Sep. 2014
McGowan, Phillip. "Boschert Says Intentions for Former Hospital Site in Crownsville Won't Conflict ; Home for Veterans, County Park Proposed." The Sun: 0. Feb 03 2005. ProQuest. Web. 22 Sep. 2014
McGowan, Phillip. "County to Study Hospital Grounds ; Officials Consider Assuming Control at Crownsville, Will Pay $250,000 to Assess Cost of Cleanup, Reuse." The Sun: 0. Oct 21 2005. ProQuest. Web. 22 Sep. 2014