Tuscaloosa in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, February 19, 2011

1. Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2 Marker

Inscription. One of four historic cemeteries located on the campus of Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest mental health facility, this cemetery was established in 1922 and was closed for burials in 1953. It contains approximately 1550 burials mostly marked with simple, chronologically numbered concrete grave markers that correspond to cemetery ledger books in the possession of the Alabama Department of Mental Health. Bryce Hospital is one of the most historic and architecturally significant public institutions in the U.S. Established in 1852 at the height of the psychiatric reform movement known as "moral treatment," the hospital was among the first mental health facilities in the country to employ architectural design and a pastoral setting as essential components in the treatment of mental illness. Through Wyatt v. Stickney, the landmark federal lawsuit initiated in 1971, Bryce Hospital became the center of the civil rights movement for people who experience mental illness.

Listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register

Erected 2009 by Alabama Historical Commission and by Descendants of Drs. W. D. and R. C. Partlow.

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This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Science & Medicine. In addition, it is included in the Alabama Historical Commission series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1922.

Location. 33° 13.149′ N, 87° 31.469′ W. Marker is in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County. It is on Jack Warner Parkway Northeast north of 8th Avenue Northeast, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Tuscaloosa AL 35404, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within one mile of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Bryce Hospital Cemetery No.3 (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); First Papermaking In Alabama

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, February 19, 2011

2. Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2 Marker

(approx. 0.4 miles away); Old Bryce Cemetery (approx. 0.6 miles away); Bryce Hospital Cemetery #1A (approx. 0.6 miles away); Bryce Hospital (approx. 0.9 miles away); Dr. Peter & Mrs. Ellen Peter-Bryce Gravesite (approx. one mile away); Fort W. W. Brandon Armory (approx. one mile away); Zeta Beta Tau (approx. 1.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Tuscaloosa.

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Future Site of Bryce Hospital Cemetery Memorial Gardens Sign image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, February 19, 2011

3. Future Site of Bryce Hospital Cemetery Memorial Gardens Sign

Gated Entrance Road to Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, February 19, 2011

4. Gated Entrance Road to Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2

Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, February 19, 2011

5. Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2

One of the Numbered Gravesites in Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, February 19, 2011

6. One of the Numbered Gravesites in Bryce Hospital Cemetery #2

Gravesite of Mr. J. T. Smothers, died 1935 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim & Renda Carr, February 19, 2011

7. Gravesite of Mr. J. T. Smothers, died 1935

Credits. This page was last revised on July 25, 2018. It was originally submitted on February 21, 2011, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama. This page has been viewed 3,173 times since then and 46 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on February 21, 2011, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.