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It is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of Hessian soldiers and 18th-century lovers Elisha Benton and Jemima Barrows, who tragically died from smallpox. [39] Dudleytown is an abandoned town founded in the mid-1740s. It lies in the middle of a forested area in Cornwall. The original buildings are gone and only their foundations remain.
Pages in category "Abandoned hospitals in the United States" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum; Y.
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.
For a century, it was known as the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, the state's largest mental institution. According to The New York Times , it once housed as many as 3,000 patients.
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.
A fictional version of Pennhurst appears in the 2019 film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which was filmed at the abandoned St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital in Ontario, Canada. Pennhurst was the basis for a fictional asylum (also named Pennhurst) that appears in the fourth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things.
The Winooski building was soon rebuilt, but was replaced with a larger building on a site between Superior and Erie Avenues in Sheboygan, built under an 1881 state law that provided funds for the care of the insane in county asylums, which opened in June 1882. [1] This was called the county hospital, but became known as the asylum. [2]
Vermont State Hospital, [1] alternately known as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane and the Waterbury Asylum, was a mental institution built in 1890 in Waterbury, Vermont to help relieve overcrowding at the privately run Vermont Asylum for the Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, now known as the Brattleboro Retreat.