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The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, [2] was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until 1993. During its operation, the hospital provided services to a variety of patients including Civil War veterans, children, and those declared mentally unwell.
The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum is an historic structure at 2335 Wayne Ave. in Dayton, Ohio. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1979. The 300-acre (120 ha) complex was designed as a mental asylum in accordance with principles advocated by Philadelphia psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride in the mid-19th ...
The Clinton Valley Center (CVC), originally called the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, was a psychiatric hospital located at 140 Elizabeth Lake Road in Pontiac, Michigan. The facility was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 [ 2 ] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, with a decrease in its ...
West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, the scene of three deadly prison riots in 1973, 1979, and 1986, [148] is said to be haunted. [149] Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston is a previously abandoned psychiatric hospital that is purported to be haunted due to the many deaths of patients which occurred there. [150]
Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. [1] The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan. [2] The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943. [3] [4]
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The melon heads of Michigan are said to reside around Felt Mansion, [1] although they have also been reportedly seen in southern forested areas of Ottawa County. [2] According to one story, they were originally children with hydrocephalus who lived at the Junction Insane Asylum near Felt Mansion. [ 2 ]
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