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|Body= In 1849, the townspeople of [[Hillsborough County Farm|Hillsborough County]], New Hampshire purchased farmland in Goffstown from a successful farmer named Noyes Poor. Poor’s Farm literally became the county’s poor farm, complete with an almshouse and a house of correction. Existing buildings on the farm were refit to house the county’s poor. Additional buildings were eventually erected to house the growing population at the poor farm, including a larger almshouse and insane asylum.        
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|Body= The hospital for the negro insane of Maryland, now known as the [[Crownsville State Hospital]], was created by an act of the General Assembly on April 11, 1910, which made an appropriation of $100,000 for the purchase of land and the erection of buildings. Sections of the act creating the hospital, Chapter 250, Laws of Maryland, 1910, provided that there should be established in the State of Maryland an institution for the detention and care of the negro insane of the state. It was expressly provided that the hospital should not be located in Baltimore City.                    
 
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Featured Image Of The Week

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The hospital for the negro insane of Maryland, now known as the Crownsville State Hospital, was created by an act of the General Assembly on April 11, 1910, which made an appropriation of $100,000 for the purchase of land and the erection of buildings. Sections of the act creating the hospital, Chapter 250, Laws of Maryland, 1910, provided that there should be established in the State of Maryland an institution for the detention and care of the negro insane of the state. It was expressly provided that the hospital should not be located in Baltimore City.