Central State Hospital (formerly the State Lunatic Asylum)

On December 28, 1837, the Georgia State Legislature passed a bill that created a "State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum." In 1842, the first patient was admitted. By the 1960s the inpatient population was over 12,000, making the asylum in Milledgeville one of the largest mental hospitals in the world at the time, leading to the phrase “Gone to Milledgeville” to indicate insanity.

This plot is one of 3 plots in the cemetery that contain the remains of Central State Hospital residents.

Side: East, Section: F