Editing Crofton, Maryland (section)

===Development===
[[File:Waugh Chapel Towne Center.JPG|thumb|Waugh Chapel Towne Center in 2015]]
In 1963, after the Crawford Corporation accumulated over {{convert|1600|acre|abbr=on}} of land, it announced that it would build a new community called Crofton. This new town and planned community was founded at the same time as [[Reston, Virginia]] (April 17, 1964) and [[Columbia, Maryland]] (1967). Crofton would be anchored by a community golf course, which later became the Crofton Country Club. Crofton was officially founded in the fall of 1964. The company considered picking an English name for the new town that "sounds well and implies that this is a pleasant place to live." It ended up picking the name "Crofton", named after a small township in [[Cumberland]] County, England. ([[Crofton, Cumbria|Crofton, England]] was originally called ''Croft-town'', derived from the word [[Croft (land)|"Croft"]], as the town standing upon the Crofts.) Crofton, Maryland was founded as a community for racial exclusion.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Browne |first1=Joseph |title=A History Of Crofton |url=https://www.wypr.org/show/maryland-morning-with-sheilah-kast-archive/2014-10-22/a-history-of-crofton |website=Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast (WYPR) |publisher=WYPR |access-date=September 8, 2021}}</ref><ref name=":0">[[Jesse Walker|Walker, Jesse]], "[https://reason.com/2003/01/01/the-radical-burbs-2/ The Radical 'Burbs]," ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]''</ref>