Location Type
Hospital/Asylum
Activity Level
(4/5)
Coordinates
33.051711, -83.220086
Description
Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia, opened in 1842 as the state's first psychiatric hospital and grew to become one of the world's largest mental institutions, housing over 12,000 patients at its peak in the 1960s. Its history includes periods of horrific overcrowding and brutal treatment, but also gradual reform, …