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Glen Echo Park :

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Sykesville : These are photographs from downtown Sykesville.

These are photographs from downtown Sykesville.

Updated: Apr 07, 2008 8:12pm PST

Maryland :

Updated: Feb 18, 2008 11:58pm PST

Henryton Center : In 1923, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryton_State_Hospital" target="_blank">Henryton State Hospital</a> was built in a rural area of Maryland for the care of African-American tuberculosis patients. The abandoned complex is now <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.35333,-76.91528+(Henryton+State+Hospital)&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=39.35358,-76.915058&spn=0.005011,0.010042&t=h&iwloc=addr" target="_blank">surrounded by a remote area of the Patapsco Valley State Park</a>.

With the development of drugs for TB in the middle of the 20th century, <a href="http://www.lung.ca/tb/tbhistory/sanatoriums/end.html">sanatoriums like this were closed</a>, and most were converted to other uses. Henryton was transferred to the Department of Mental Hygiene in 1963 and began to operate a training and habilitation program for severely and profoundly retarded ambulatory adults. The original hospital was a single building, but during the 1960's additional structures were added. Eventually there were 18 buildings in the complex.

The facility was closed in 1985, and has been vacant ever since. It is on 52 acres of beautiful woods, and state has tried to sell the property several times. But the buildings are full of asbestos in the floor tiles, ceiling tiles, and insulation in walls and around pipes, so razing or renovating the buildings would be prohibitively expensive.

The state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had been maintaining the property at a cost of $100,000 a year, but due to budget cuts the expensive security efforts were ended in 2001. By now the complex has been extensively vandalized, and the DHMH property report states that vandals "are gradually destroying what remains of the buildings."

As if to prove that statement, in December 2007 <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/video/?clipId=2030705&clipFormat=wmv&topVideoCatNo=108504" target="_blank">a fire of undetermined origin engulfed the auditorium</a> section of the hospital building. Although there had been many small fires at the complex, this one was by far the largest, requiring 80 firefighters from three counties to put it out. The auditorium and cafeteria have since been demolished.

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Henryton Center

In 1923, Henryton State Hospital was built in a rural area of Maryland ...

Updated: Apr 22, 2007 9:59pm PST

Carroll County : Carroll County still has a great deal of quaint charm. Most of these pictures were taken from the road driving through the county.

Carroll County still has a great deal of quaint charm. Most of these p ...

Updated: Apr 22, 2007 9:00pm PST

Maryland travels :

Maryland travels

Updated: Mar 10, 2007 7:48pm PST

Ellicott City :

Updated: Nov 26, 2006 3:51pm PST

Local Scenes : A miscellany of interesting sights on local streets, roads and parks.

A miscellany of interesting sights on local streets, roads and parks.

Updated: Oct 09, 2006 8:11pm PST

Howard County :

Updated: Sep 24, 2006 2:53pm PST

Montgomery County :

Montgomery County

Updated: May 28, 2006 2:04pm PST

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