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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.