Crownsville Memorial Park

In 2022, Anne Arundel County acquired this property, establishing the Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park. (www.aacounty.org/CrownsvillePark)  Guided by community members with close ties to the site, the hospital’s often difficult history is slowly but surely being reclaimed, remembered and memorialized. Oral history interviews will help document the history of the site, and the Crownsville Master Plan calls for Museum installations, education, programming, art, and signage to honor their humanity, dignity, and place in our memory. The County has released the Crownsville Master Plan to guide future redevelopment of the park.

Note that the campus is currently not publicly accessible to the general public, but you can explore this fascinating story virtually– by checking out the Civil Rights Guide for Annapolis and Anne Arundel County (www.visitannapolis.org/black-history-365/civil-rights-guide/), and by visiting four recently installed story boards in a newly built pocket park at the corner of Crownsville Road and North Drive– across from the Administration Building.