Bellevue Asylum stood for 77 years before it was torn down in 1956, and its history is deeply connected to the lives of Washington County residents.

The Outagamie County Cemetery is the final resting place for 133 people who died while confined at its former asylum for the chronic insane. Supporters of the project figured it would take about ...

What: “Out of the Shadows,” an exhibit on the former Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic Insane Where: The History Museum at the Castle, downtown Appleton When: Opened Thursday and runs ...

Photographer Erik Bennett is documenting a dark and negative symbol of America's landscape--insane asylums. ... "The number corresponds to a record but in many cases those records have been lost ...

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 ...

MURDER AT AN ASYLUM.; Records on the Trenton Hospital's Books Admitted -- The Statement of Judge Vroom. Share full article. Aug. 23, 1901. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Joinson has examined public records in the National Archives and found the names of 400 inmates. ... The Hiawatha Indian Insane Asylum in Canton, part of the Governor's Biennial Art Exhibition.

The Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum -- later renamed the Mississippi State Insane Hospital -- operated from 1855 to 1935 and housed up to 35,000 patients from across the state.

Zuckerman said records reflect up to 35,000 patients stayed at the asylum between 1865 and 1935. She said a total of 9,000 died there, with about 6,000 of them buried in the asylum cemetery.

The Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum — later renamed the Mississippi State Insane Hospital — operated from 1855 to 1935 and housed up to 35,000 patients from across the state.