The former teacher from Ireland was admitted to the Athens Lunatic Asylum as patient number 150 from Adams County, nearly two months after it opened in February 1874. She was buried on January ...

The Asylum Hill Project was created after work crews found human remains in 2012 on part of the UMMC campus in Jackson. Technology later predicted that thousands of patients from the former State ...

Archaeologists have discovered the burial of a woman with a rare "porcelain gallbladder" who was interred at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum's cemetery 100 years ago. When you purchase ...

Somewhere between 3,260 and 5,000 people are buried in the vicinity of the Montana State Hospital, which was founded in 1877 as a territorial insane asylum. Cemetery occupants either died at the ...

Annual ceremony honors former Hiawatha Indian Insane Asylum residents. Story by Parker Brown • 1w. C ANTON, ... found out that three members of her community were interred at the asylum cemetery.

Road construction recovered the first grave in 2012. A list of asylum patients who were buried in the cemetery between 1912 and 1935 is available; but, without markers, no one knows exactly where each ...

Records suggest somewhere between 3,260 and 5,000 people are buried in the long neglected burial grounds for the Montana State Hospital and the site is being overrun by buffaloberry shrubs.

Rusty metal stakes, resembling row signs in a backyard garden, stand inside the thickets or in the defiant clearings that remain. These scattered, bent and battered markers once displayed ...

Volunteers are uncovering the lives of former patients of the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum. ... About 2,900 burials took place there but when the asylum closed, the cemetery was ...

Just a few headstones can be found at the Montana State Hospital cemetery, along with hundreds more postcard-size plaques, many bent or broken or succumbing to weeds. Through the years, weather ...

Somewhere between 3,260 and 5,000 people are buried in the vicinity of the Montana State Hospital, which was founded in 1877 as a territorial insane asylum. Cemetery occupants either died at the ...