77 Comments Posted by jane

if this is the place I think it is, part of the facility is still being used. There are newer buildings ca. 1960-1980 in the back of the grounds. You would think they would cut the power to the abandoned buildings tho...unless they want them to burn down.

This looks very much like a place I was familiar with in Maryland, and since it is paired with another site in Maryland, I'm guessing this is the same place. If so, I knew someone who worked there as her first job as a teenager. She described caring for and bathing a 65-year-old woman who had been a vegetable since birth.

I also knew someone who grew up there. From what I know of it, it was basically a home for children and adults who were profoundly retarded, many of whom were basically vegetables. So most of what you are seeing is probably the equipment needed to bathe and care for people who were unable to sit or stand. However, they apparently took overflow from local orphanages. My friend who grew up there was an orphan or was abandoned, I don't think she knew which. She was functionally retarded, but apparently was not placed there for that reason. She may have just suffered a complete lack of stimulation in that place . There apparently weren't many other children there who functioned as well as she did, so she wouldn't have had anyone to talk to.