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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.
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.
It became one of the state's largest haunted houses and was in use until January 2006 when four floors of the building collapsed. Toby Spade purchased the former infirmary from the state of Ohio with the intent of rehabilitating the building but the front north facade gave way in February 2015. [ 2 ]
The town had disappeared from maps for the most part by 1974, with Winton Road and Mobile Drive as exceptions. [7] The last original roads remaining as of 2016 are Mobile Drive, Henderson Road (now Old Henderson Road), Midwest Drive, and a property line/grass strip between a Weight Watchers center and a Wolfe Sons Heating & Cooling warehouse ...
The Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was initially organized by an act of the General Assembly passed on March 5, 1835. [5] The original hospital building, after three years of construction, was completed in 1838 at a cost of about $61,000. [1] [5] Dr. William M. Awl was elected as the first Medical Superintendent of the asylum. [5]
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 ...
This abandoned hospital in Gwangju, Gyeonggi is claimed to be the most haunted place in Korea. The once psychiatric hospital is home to many rumors of ghosts. Over 2.6 million people watched a horror film dealing with poltergeist phenomena in Gonjiam. Gonjiam hospital has since been demolished as of 28 May 2018.