Central State Hospital | |
 Central State Hospital, Powell Building, circa 1937 | |
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| Nearest city | Milledgeville, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 33°3′2″N 83°19′0″W / 33.05056°N 83.31667°W |
| Area | 20.7 acres (8.4 ha) |
| Built | 1842 |
| NRHP reference No. | 05000694[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 12, 2005 |
Georgia's state mental asylum located in Milledgeville, Georgia, now known as the Central State Hospital (CSH), has been the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities. In continuous operation since accepting its first patient in December 1842, the hospital was founded as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, and was also known as the Georgia State Sanitarium and Milledgeville State Hospital during its long history. By the 1960s the facility had grown into the largest mental hospital in the world (contending with Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in New York). Its landmark Powell Building and the vast, abandoned 1929 Jones Building stand among some 200 buildings on two thousand acres that once housed nearly 12,000 patients.[2]
The CSH complex currently encompasses about 1,750 acres (710 ha), a pecan grove and historic cemeteries, and serves about 200 mental health patients. As of 2016 the facility offers short-stay acute treatment for people with mental illness, residential units and habilitation programs for people with developmental disabilities, recovery programs that require a longer stay, and specialized skilled and ICF nursing centers. Some programs serve primarily the central-Georgia region while other programs serve counties throughout the state.[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Monroe, Doug (18 Feb 2015). "Asylum: Inside Central State Hospital, once the world's largest mental institution". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ^ "Central State Hospital: Milledgeville". Georgia Department of Behavior Health and Developmental Disabilities. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.