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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 10, 2011
Caption:
Memory Hill Cemetery, Central State Hospital | Additional Description: (formerly the State Lunatic Asylum) On December 28,
1837, the Georgia State Legislature passed a
bill that created a "State Lunatic, Idiot, and
Epileptic Asylum." In 1842, the first patient
was admitted. By the 1960s the inpatient census
was over 12,000, making the asylum in
Milledgeville one of the largest mental hospitals
in the world at the time, leading to the
phrase “Gone to Milledgeville” to indicate insanity. (Memory Hill Cemetery tour)
Submitted: May 12, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153025
File Size: 0.313 Megabytes
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