The story
Once the world's largest mental institution with 25,000 patients buried in five cemeteries, many in numbered graves dug by fellow inmates.
Everything that was here
- 1842–present · still open
Central State HospitalMental Hospital
Once the world's largest mental institution with 25,000 patients buried in five cemeteries, many in numbered graves dug by fellow inmates.
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