Late in the evening on May 29, 2011 several of the outbuildings at Crown Farm mysteriously burned to the ground, including the large dairy barn and hay barn. Most of these structures were built in the early 20th century.
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Janeen Miller | 5/31/11 | This is so tragic!! I can't believe it happened. Do we know how it started? :( |
| clark day | 5/31/11 | this makes me so mad.... |
| Andrew Odom | 6/5/11 | "Progress," eh? |
| Mary Jo La France | 6/24/11 | My heart feels broken and my stomach is sick |
| Myrna Taylor | 7/19/11 | Tragic is right! And, mysterious -- like the burning down of Chestnut Lodge in Rockville. Makes you wonder!! |
| Drew Mesa | 7/30/11 | Sad , thats a lot of county and city history going up in smoke and flame |
| Margie Hickman | 9/23/11 | So, so sad heartbreaking to see the last of our old neighborhood go up in smoke. Couldn't someone save this area? |
| Kurt Logsdon | 10/29/11 | Very suspicious |
| MG | 12/21/11 | Same as what happened the Chestnut Lodge in Rockville. Much easier for developers to set historic buildings on fire than to make efforts in preserving those. |
| Rani Saini | 1/15/12 | It is so sad and heart wrenching to see history go down in flames. I have lived across from the farm for the last 17 years and I feel like it is very personal loss. |
| Cakery | 6/3/12 | Fred Felton was really pushing the development and he died at a very young age. "Same as what happened the Chestnut Lodge in Rockville. Much easier for developers to set historic buildings on fire than to make efforts in preserving those." |
| Ken Crowley | 8/26/14 | Barns and farmhouses often "mysteriously" caught fire just before settlement occurred on a sale to developers. The buildings have no value to the developer, but were/are heavily insured by the farmer and remain so right up until the last minute. And so, the buildings often end up in a blaze right before the property is sold. Sad, but no mysterious, and the developer would just be bulldozing the structures anyway. |
| Dolores | 10/2/15 | Mysterious....uuhm...don't believe so. I am so sad about the many houses that have suffered through these years of 'progress'. Some progress was for good, but I wish developers would not destroy history! Some areas in Gaithersburg, and elsewhere around the country have done well developing around historic structures. It gives their town a unique charm. |