State Mental Hospital, Milledgeville Georgia
Inmates from Whitfield County, Georgia 1853-1870
Powell Building, the main building, 1894
Photo courtesy of Vanishing Georgia
This Mental Hospital was apparently considered to be the largest in the world from 1837 (its announcement of opening was 1842 by the Governor) to the 1950s. The records are from March 1853 however, and there were 355 patients prior to the earliest volume of records. Keep in mind that not everyone who was in this hospital was "insane". Some people were stroke victims, senile, physically deformed, epileptic, those with chronic disease, or just unwanted by their families. After the Civil War, it also included soldiers who were maimed physically and/or mentally by War. The records hold more information and if you find a relative, please look for more details at the Georgia Archives in Morrow. There may also be information in Whitfield County's Court records.
Rear of Women's Convalescent Building, 1894
Courtesy of Vanishing Georgia
Source of data below: The Georgia Black Book, Vol 1 by Robert Scott Davis Jr., 1982
Samuel L Ward (inmate # 365), admitted 6 May 1853
William Drake (inmate 397), admitted 28 Feb 1854
Mrs Mary (S or J) Jones (inmate # 572), admitted 20 June 1857
Jules Lefler alias Bernadotte (inmate 811), admitted 10 May 1860
Wilson M Chapman (inmate 828), admitted 14 June 1860
Joseph H Long (page 1, Book 3), admitted 9 Oct 1860
African American Building, 1894
Courtesy of Vanishing Georgia
Convalescent Males Building, 1894
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