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  2. The history of the Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic ...

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    Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...

  3. Nebraska State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Nebraska State Hospital, also known as the Nebraska Asylum for the Insane, the Lincoln State Hospital and the Lincoln Regional Center was an insane asylum established near Lincoln, Nebraska in 1870. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Due to the understanding of mental health in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the facility treated everything from alcoholism to ...

  4. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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    The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.

  5. Austin State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Austin State Hospital (ASH), formerly known until 1925 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, is a 299-bed psychiatric hospital located in Austin, Texas. It is the oldest psychiatric facility in the state of Texas, and the oldest continuously operating west of the Mississippi River. [2] It is operated by the Texas Health and Human Services ...

  6. Oregon Hospital for the Insane - Wikipedia

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    J.C. Hawthorne died in February 1881 leaving ownership of the hospital in the hands of his wife. Dr. Simeon Josephi took over the operation of the hospital from the time of Hawthorne's death until the completion of the Oregon State Insane Asylum in Salem.

  7. Andrew McFarland - Wikipedia

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    About 1854, he became superintendent of the Illinois State Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville and served in that position until 1869, when he resigned and established Oak Lawn Retreat, a private asylum in Jacksonville. Beyond his work in mental health, McFarland published on work of fiction, The Escape (Boston, 1851). In 1891, he hanged himself.

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