Henryton, Maryland
Unincorporated community in Maryland, United States
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Henryton was an unincorporated town in Carroll County, Maryland, United States.[1] It was located along the Patapsco River and is now within Patapsco Valley State Park. Henryton was the site of the Henryton State Hospital, which was originally constructed as a tuberculosis sanatorium and later housed mentally disabled people.
Henryton, Maryland | |
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  Henryton Location within the state of Maryland  Henryton Henryton (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°21′04″N 76°54′48″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Carroll |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
History
Henryton was a rural village of about 11 houses and a store near the B&O Railroad tracks and the Patapsco River, named for Henry DeVries, a 19th-century landowner. In addition to farming and trapping, residents sold pulpwood and worked in nearby quarries. A 1960 memoir recalls walking 4 miles along the railroad tracks each way to go to the movies in Sykesville.[2] In 1922–23, the Henryton State Hospital was built there, with its boiler house at the Henryton Road railroad crossing. This led to the roads being paved and the village becoming less rural.[2] A small station stood across the railroad from the boiler house; the station has been demolished, and the hospital buildings were likewise demolished in 2013.[3] The Henryton Road bridge across the Patapsco was destroyed in 1972 by Tropical Storm Agnes and was not replaced.[3][4][5]
