Milledgeville only had a one weekend per month outpatient clinic.I was involved in the deinstitutionalization of patients from Milledgeville, which included visiting nursing homes across the state to find placements suitable for our patient. Jones Building, Central State Hospital. Patients needing calming were put in special blue-colored rooms – and if the soothing color wasn’t enough, they were chained to a chair in the corner to make sure.Dr. ONE FAVORITE THING WAS TO SLIDE DOWN THE BANISTER IN THE POWELL BLDG AFTER CLIMBING TO THE TOP FLOOR TO DELIVER MY PAPERS, THE SIDEWALK WAS OUR SKATE RINK OF THE TIMES, THE BALL FIELD BEHIND THE WHITTLE AND CABINESS BLDG. Amazing article.I was a patient in the Adolescent Ward in 1975 and then moved to the Yarborough building. We had many patients who were in their 60’s and who had been admitted as children from rural, impoverished families who did not have the resources or means to care for them. i love anything with history. The buildings were lit by lamps and torches.
I know it’s highly illegal to just trespass, but I want to know if there’s someone I can talk to for permission?I had two uncles admitted to this hospital in the mid 1950s.
Their caps all had GLA on them that stood for Georgia Lunatic Asylum.This was a very good article. Personnel had to stay in arms reach of violent people and keep them from hurting themselves or getting hurt by them( i took some punches, some kicks, and a skin tear or two) as did many other employees. They […]My grandmother, Mamie (Mayme) Christian Robertson, died there in 1954, and probably entered there in the late 1940’s. I also had a Post traumatic stressful grandmother and 2 mentally retarded aunts admitted there for a while for treatment. Papa was a patient at Central State-Hospital. Holly , Ingram I was sentenced user te First Offenders Act. I noticed because my grandmother was railroaded into that hell hole in about 1936 when she had post-partum depression.
In those days, the grounds were beautiful but, of course, the patients were rather pitiful. What a great article about its history! and held that job for fifteen years. Some of the names mentioned in it were kind of familiar to me because both of my parents were employed by CSH for most of their “working lives.” My father worked in at least two or three buildings – my mother, in two, also. 800 acres of nearby farmland took care of the facility’s food needs, and were strenuously farmed by the patients. The students were used as staff. He like many of the other doctors there were WW2 refugees. You’re probably aware that their photo hangs in the tiny museum at CSH. You may wish to contact the organization we link to in the article and see if they can forward you to the proper people.still waiting to receive my Great grandfathers medical records.
I enquired as to what it was. MY WHOLE FAMILY MADE A LIVING THERE AND MOST ARE RETIRED FROM THERE. Milledgeville, Georgia. CSH is a historic part of Milledgeville, the state of Georgia, and the south in general. However, as time went by and the status of the hospital changed to a nursing home, the atmosphere changed, too. As it had been throughout its history, Milledgeville State Hospital continued to be influenced by state politics, with the board pressured by politicians to appoint staff as political favors, and patient levels kept high for economic profit.In the 1960s the now-renamed Central State Hospital had over 12,000 patients and vied with Pilgrim State Hospital in New York as the largest facility in the country.“Rows upon rows of numbered, small, rusted markers as far as you can see. As a deputy sheriff, I have taken people to this hospital on many occasions.
I have a great aunt who was sent there in the 60’s for depression and the stories she tells are absolutely horrifying. THANK GOD FOR THE HOSPITAL, MY GREAT GREAT GRANDADDY WAS SENT THERE WITH HEART TROUBLE AND DIED THERE. I predicted in 1987 when GRH/S began to receive and utilize the new atypical antipsychotic medications that the hospital which had over 300 patients at the time would soon close due to the many patient become able to function outside restrictive care such as that of a close psychiatric unit. Central State Hospital (CSH), Milledgeville, Georgia : Weird True Stories Police Department Here it is: It actually letters to Beck and Gregg Hardware in Atlanta. I would love to have any records of her (dates, diagnoses, treatment, etc.) I SAW PATIENTS SO MENTAL THEY HAD TO BE LOCKED IN A ROOM WITH ONLY A MATTRESS, THEY WOULD TEAR THAT UP IN A SHORT TIME. One was named Clarence Hood Jr and the other James Hood. She was there from 1940s to 1950s.
The graves from the Negro cemetery that were moved to make way for the Rivers complex were respectfully reburied in order at another burial ground on campus. Craig Dominey, Photographer Jones Building, Central State Hospital.