RISING SUN INN
Historic Inn — 1090 Generals Highway, Crownsville, Anne Arundel County County, Maryland
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/rising-sun-inn-crownsville-maryland/

The operator references ghost stories and unexplained rose fragrance.

Rising Sun Inn is a historic inn in Crownsville, Maryland, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The operator references ghost stories and unexplained rose fragrance. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.

The Rising Sun is the farmhouse that became the tavern — Edward Baldwin's 1753 frame house on Generals Highway, where his son Henry came back from the Revolution, married the tavern-keeper's widow, added the gambrel wing, and got the license in 1785. For thirty years it was the crossroads inn: the stagecoach stop, the post office, the meeting place, the taproom with the arched cupboards that are still in the wall.
The Baldwin women kept it after Henry — Maria and then her second husband ran it to 1816 — and the Daughters of the American Revolution took it in 1916. The smell of roses that visitors report is the inn's own haunting — the unexplained perfume in the rooms where two and a half centuries of travelers slept.
The file keeps the Rising Sun: the 1753 farmhouse, the 1785 tavern license, the cupboard walls, and the roses that nobody can account for.
The Rising Sun Inn is the archive's Crownsville file — the stagecoach tavern and the phantom perfume.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Rising Sun Inn is the archive's Crownsville file — the Baldwin tavern, the Rochambeau route, and the smell of roses.
A farmhouse tavern keeps its scent — the file's suggestion being that the Rising Sun's hold is the lingering: the tobacco family, the widows who kept it open, and the perfume that stayed after they were gone.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] phantom smell: The operator references ghost stories and unexplained rose fragrance. The site in Crownsville, Maryland gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'The Rising Sun Inn'. Heard rather than seen: the report that keeps the file open.
  source: The Rising Sun Inn (https://www.risingsuninn.org/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· The Rising Sun Inn — Friends of the Rising Sun Inn
  https://www.risingsuninn.org/

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