This week we will be visiting 620 Broad St, Milledgeville GA. This is the morbid history of Georgia’s Central State Hospital, formerly known as Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, the United States largest mental institution and possibly the largest the world has ever seen, with its peak housing between 13,000-17,000 patients.

Sources:

A Brief History of Mental Illness and the U.S. Mental Health Care System (uniteforsight.org)

Introduction · Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, GA · Georgia Public Library Service (omeka.net)

Lunacy in the 19th Century.pdf (wisconsin.edu)

Asylum: Inside Central State Hospital, once the world's largest mental institution - Atlanta Magazine

Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The World's Largest Mental Asylum: From The Horrors Of The Back Wards To Today's Jails and Prisons - Pete Earley

Inside Georgia's Real-Life Lunatic Asylum - Deep South Magazine

7 FACTS ABOUT THE ABANDONED INSANE ASYLUM: CENTRAL STATE HOSPITAL MILLEDGEVILLE GA (365atlantatraveler.com)

Central State Hospital - New Georgia Encyclopedia

Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter - Jack Nelson - Google Books