The Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble-minded was incorporated by the General Assembly in 1888, and its name was changed by the General Assembly of 1912 to Rosewood State Training School. It is a permanent charitable institution, owned and entirely supported by the State of Maryland. The object of the institution was to furnish a home and a practical education for the feeble-minded children of the state who were not provided for in the public schools. Many children were of such defective understanding as to render them incapable of receiving proper training in the public schools, where they were brought into competition with those of normal intellect and where they could not receive the especial care and attention absolutely necessary to secure mental development. In most instances they required training specially adapted to their condition. More history...