The history of this place is far far worse than what is described here. It is an injustice that so often the truth is neglected, and the horrors that happened to the victims here understated.
So true! Growing up on Georgia we as kids were always told "you will go to Milledgeville if you keep that up!" That threat was so horrible! Even children as far away as Douglas County, Georgia knew how horrible that place was.
What they want to do is disgusting. CSH is/was the home of10s of thousands of individuals without a voice. Our great grand father was admitted to CSH in August 1907 during timr immediately prior he has lost his wife in childbirth, their baby boy weeks later, their older son died. His middle daughter had married in 1906, so he had two daughters to rear, and was swindled out of his buiness which was Naval Stores aka turpentine. Papa Williams passed in October 1906 from heart disease. He is buried at CSH, at Cedar Lane Cemetery.
The big white bldg is the Powell Bldg. I was committed in the hospital in '69. I wasn't voluntary. I didn't care actually. Anything to get away from my family. I was only 16. Everyone who was committed or on voluntary basis, had to pass through the Powell Bldg. After doing paper work and stuff, they send you to bldgs according to where you're from in Ga. I was from middle Ga, so they put in the Washington Bldg. I was in school before I came there so I continued going to school. The Boland Bldg was the school. The Boland Bldg also housed kids younger than myself. The Yarborough Bldg is a 5 floor structure, looks like a hotel. In 1971, I was put in the Yarborough Bldg, then later I went to a half-way house in Atlanta. About 2 yrs I spent in this hospital. I did not wanna go home. So I didn't. I made it on my own. I've been all over the hospital grounds. I knew all the Bldgs by name back then. Even tho I was committed, I went wherever I wanted. The doors were locked at night but during the day when I wasn't at school, me and other kids, from other bldgs would just walk around. Up the street a piece from the Washington Bldg was the Bostick Bldg, for men. You keep walking and you come to the Holly Bldg, a few other bldgs I don't remember the names. The Kemper Bldg was the women's prison, we admired it as we went past. Further up and off in the distance was the Binion Bldg, men's prison. After walking for a while, over to the right is the Yarborough Bldg, way way way way way far away. We come up on the Employee Cafeteria after a litle while. That's where we ate when we went to school. You can see the Powell Bldg also. I After more walking, we come upon the Auditorium, and the pecan groves, situated along the long paved road. The music bldg was to the left of the auditorium. It's no longer there. A lot of the massive bldgs have ben demolished. The Greene & Walker Bldgs were demolished. The Jones Bldg might be standing, i don't know. The Washington and Bostick Bldgs are all gone. The softball field behind the Bostick Bldg is still there. I take Googel Maps street level and sometimes stare at the field. So much fun was had around there. Well, thats enough. ♥
My grandmother was in and out of there for quite some time back in the late 40’s-50’s. She was schizophrenic and had a nervous breakdown. Unfortunately this was way before all the advancement in medicine!!! While there, she was forced to have many, many electric shock treatments. So many over the years, that it totally wiped out her a lot of her brain. Afterwards it caused her to have the brain function of a child. It was pitiful! I dearly loved my “Nunnie” and miss her sweet spirit to this day!!! I vividly remember making and playing paper dolls with her. I wish I could spend some time with her again☹️
it saddens me deeply to read this. they had horrible methods of treatment till the day they shut down . she may have been the victim of DR Freeman ,a misguided monster of the 40s -50s . i do have an unusual suggestion,,if you have any spare time you might volunteer at your local nursing home,,they need your company and you may enjoy theirs .anyway .thanks for sharing ,people need to know what happened there.
@@RangerRickTV I've managed to go in, I want to say the Powell Building held administration and the two wings on the side held patients, the building also held treatment rooms, part of the building is still in use to this day.
@John C i will tell you about "longhead" he was about 18 and had an unusually elongated head. you couldn't get his name because all he would do is yell ,mom. it was a long version of the word .sort of sounded like maaaoom . he did this incessantly ,24-7 .he was harmless enough ,but the night watch would pop him with bath towels. this went on for a time. then i found out i was getting out, i went into the bathroom ,it was backed up into the floor, i slipped in the filth an hit my head on the tile. leaving a blood streak with my arm in the toilet,,yep i cried .good ol longhead came around the corner and clearly asked if i was ok. i told him i only wanted one thing , he asked what i needed .my response was ...mom . you never expect to be sitting in filth ,crying with a boy named longhead while in an asylum. my first visit was when i was 18,,big misunderstanding. i should have never been there, i returned to a state facility when i was 21. i had consumed a vast quantity of lsd. took a little vacation. got it together and had a bazaar but good life. now that iv'e pried open the vault . i'd like to know a little about whom i am divulging this too...your turn
@John C you might be in luck ,my wife is a professional novel editor..im in greene co close to scull shoals .1 hr north of Milledgeville . i was in central state for about a month . i am definitely going to tell you the long complicated tale of how i was sent there .what they did was criminal. but the second time was a crime , what i did hehe i have a little withdraw to deal with for a while , but i'll be back
@John C have you ever visited the museum in Milledgeville? i was there for about 20min when i noticed some thing unlabeled in an obscure area of the display .i asked the curator if she was familiar with these items ,she said no.she seemed suprised to find out that she had lobotomy picks on display. i'm sure they belonged to DR Freeman .are you familiar with doc Freeman and his practice..he was no better than klause barbie in my opinion . do you enjoy slightly morbid sad history . we have alot of that sort of stuff in the small rural community where i am..and the wife said a book of asylum stories might do well if written correctly. oh yea my best friend of 40yrs lives next door his father died in central state..sad story .i'll be back ......
@John C my best friend of 40yrs lives 70ft from me, his father died in central , he may wish to contribute,,oh yea he never went to milledgeville but he spent a good deal of time in the padded castles hehe DR Freeman would visit central state a few times a year. they would line up the disruptive folks 70-90 in a row. the lobotomies. took about 2-3 minutes a piece .he performed his last procedure in 1967 on a 10yr old boy in California thorosene came out in the late 50s and was said to be lobotomy in a bottle..they shoved a bunch of that down my gullet in Augusta..im going to have to tell you bout that trip .strange to say, but looking back it was actually pretty hilarious !
He tell this story as if its something to be proud of . I hope they NEVER open this building up for ANYTHING . Its was a place used to experiment on people especially the black people .i kn my mom was there off and on . She told the put those. Electric shock to her head . they used monkey's all so but they don't mention that ( they had .no ideal. I vist her 1 time .iwas a little girl But i remember seeing how big and white. That Building )(place was all them sick people looking like zombies and it was just scary. .....she was sick off and on from the age of 25 . she died in and out patient house in rome ga.😢 I started have mental issue's. 9 24 12 was my 3rd . Episode . Iam 62.now saved and delivered from mental illness I thank God everyday Jesus my Lord and Savior for my right mind 🙆🏾♂️i am health and healed. A generational curse brokeN. # by all means if you are having mental health problems.#don't be ashamed#get Help( its well advance now. and remember take your meds if needed and exercising is so important. Not constantly)🤭dont worry bout what people will think ?.Now that would crazy)( facts TAKE CARE OF U.SO U CAN TAKE CARE OF OTHERS . 🚶 .pray And seek Jesus .📖 .😊be encouraged.❣️ 💃 may is mental health awareness and iam aware and u should B.
I was at the bar bell that was. Lock down one the staff people he was drinking on the job. I was gonna turn him in for he told me I did he was gonna make sure was not gonna get out of there alive
My grandmother worked there for 20 years as well as my mother… I have no clue how they did it.
The history of this place is far far worse than what is described here. It is an injustice that so often the truth is neglected, and the horrors that happened to the victims here understated.
So true! Growing up on Georgia we as kids were always told "you will go to Milledgeville if you keep that up!" That threat was so horrible! Even children as far away as Douglas County, Georgia knew how horrible that place was.
What they want to do is disgusting. CSH is/was the home of10s of thousands of individuals without a voice. Our great grand father was admitted to CSH in August 1907 during timr immediately prior he has lost his wife in childbirth, their baby boy weeks later, their older son died. His middle daughter had married in 1906, so he had two daughters to rear, and was swindled out of his buiness which was Naval Stores aka turpentine. Papa Williams passed in October 1906 from heart disease. He is buried at CSH, at Cedar Lane Cemetery.
My mother was there for a short time after a nervous breakdown in the 70s.
The big white bldg is the Powell Bldg.
I was committed in the hospital in '69.
I wasn't voluntary.
I didn't care actually.
Anything to get away from my family.
I was only 16.
Everyone who was committed or on voluntary basis, had to pass through the Powell Bldg.
After doing paper work and stuff, they send you to bldgs according to where you're from in Ga.
I was from middle Ga, so they put in the Washington Bldg.
I was in school before I came there so I continued going to school.
The Boland Bldg was the school.
The Boland Bldg also housed kids younger than myself.
The Yarborough Bldg is a 5 floor structure, looks like a hotel.
In 1971, I was put in the Yarborough Bldg, then later I went to a half-way house in Atlanta.
About 2 yrs I spent in this hospital.
I did not wanna go home.
So I didn't.
I made it on my own.
I've been all over the hospital grounds.
I knew all the Bldgs by name back then.
Even tho I was committed, I went wherever I wanted.
The doors were locked at night but during the day when I wasn't at school, me and other kids, from other bldgs would just walk around.
Up the street a piece from the Washington Bldg was the Bostick Bldg, for men.
You keep walking and you come to the Holly Bldg, a few other bldgs I don't remember the names.
The Kemper Bldg was the women's prison, we admired it as we went past.
Further up and off in the distance was the Binion Bldg, men's prison.
After walking for a while, over to the right is the Yarborough Bldg, way way way way way far away.
We come up on the Employee Cafeteria after a litle while.
That's where we ate when we went to school.
You can see the Powell Bldg also. I
After more walking, we come upon the Auditorium, and the pecan groves, situated along the long paved road.
The music bldg was to the left of the auditorium.
It's no longer there.
A lot of the massive bldgs have ben demolished.
The Greene & Walker Bldgs were demolished.
The Jones Bldg might be standing, i don't know.
The Washington and Bostick Bldgs are all gone.
The softball field behind the Bostick Bldg is still there.
I take Googel Maps street level and sometimes stare at the field.
So much fun was had around there.
Well, thats enough. ♥
What kind of glory and legacy is it to take someones name away, and put them in an unmarked tomb with only a number?
My grandmother was in and out of there for quite some time back in the late 40’s-50’s. She was schizophrenic and had a nervous breakdown. Unfortunately this was way before all the advancement in medicine!!! While there, she was forced to have many, many electric shock treatments. So many over the years, that it totally wiped out her a lot of her brain. Afterwards it caused her to have the brain function of a child. It was pitiful! I dearly loved my “Nunnie” and miss her sweet spirit to this day!!! I vividly remember making and playing paper dolls with her. I wish I could spend some time with her again☹️
it saddens me deeply to read this. they had horrible methods of treatment till the day they shut down . she may have been the victim of DR Freeman ,a misguided monster of the 40s -50s . i do have an unusual suggestion,,if you have any spare time you might volunteer at your local nursing home,,they need your company and you may enjoy theirs .anyway .thanks for sharing ,people need to know what happened there.
I*uum m.j up
My mom .was put here .😢 iam 62
I kn they electric shocked her. Never help
She was young black beautiful lady .r.i.p mom 🌹
What is that huge white building?
It's called the Powell building
@@revy1015 I don't know anyone that has gotten inside.
@@RangerRickTV I've managed to go in, I want to say the Powell Building held administration and the two wings on the side held patients, the building also held treatment rooms, part of the building is still in use to this day.
The man actually said glory and legacy .i was there for a while . there was legacy of dehumanization , but the only glory was for the devil !
@John C i will tell you about "longhead" he was about 18 and had an unusually elongated head. you couldn't get his name because all he would do is yell ,mom. it was a long version of the word .sort of sounded like maaaoom . he did this incessantly ,24-7 .he was harmless enough ,but the night watch would pop him with bath towels. this went on for a time. then i found out i was getting out, i went into the bathroom ,it was backed up into the floor, i slipped in the filth an hit my head on the tile. leaving a blood streak with my arm in the toilet,,yep i cried .good ol longhead came around the corner and clearly asked if i was ok. i told him i only wanted one thing , he asked what i needed .my response was ...mom . you never expect to be sitting in filth ,crying with a boy named longhead while in an asylum. my first visit was when i was 18,,big misunderstanding. i should have never been there, i returned to a state facility when i was 21. i had consumed a vast quantity of lsd. took a little vacation. got it together and had a bazaar but good life. now that iv'e pried open the vault . i'd like to know a little about whom i am divulging this too...your turn
@John C you might be in luck ,my wife is a professional novel editor..im in greene co close to scull shoals .1 hr north of Milledgeville . i was in central state for about a month . i am definitely going to tell you the long complicated tale of how i was sent there .what they did was criminal. but the second time was a crime , what i did hehe i have a little withdraw to deal with for a while , but i'll be back
@John C have you ever visited the museum in Milledgeville? i was there for about 20min when i noticed some thing unlabeled in an obscure area of the display .i asked the curator if she was familiar with these items ,she said no.she seemed suprised to find out that she had lobotomy picks on display. i'm sure they belonged to DR Freeman .are you familiar with doc Freeman and his practice..he was no better than klause barbie in my opinion . do you enjoy slightly morbid sad history . we have alot of that sort of stuff in the small rural community where i am..and the wife said a book of asylum stories might do well if written correctly. oh yea my best friend of 40yrs lives next door his father died in central state..sad story .i'll be back ......
@John C my best friend of 40yrs lives 70ft from me, his father died in central , he may wish to contribute,,oh yea he never went to milledgeville but he spent a good deal of time in the padded castles hehe DR Freeman would visit central state a few times a year. they would line up the disruptive folks 70-90 in a row. the lobotomies. took about 2-3 minutes a piece .he performed his last procedure in 1967 on a 10yr old boy in California thorosene came out in the late 50s and was said to be lobotomy in a bottle..they shoved a bunch of that down my gullet in Augusta..im going to have to tell you bout that trip .strange to say, but looking back it was actually pretty hilarious !
@John C yep a real live grammar nazi
Jose Delgado still performs electric shock therapy in Milledgeville, it's so sad to me.
Andrea Hieber How do I find out more about the functioning part of the psychiatric hospital?
He tell this story as if its something to be proud of .
I hope they NEVER open this building up for ANYTHING .
Its was a place used to experiment on people especially the black people .i kn my mom was there off and on .
She told the put those. Electric shock to her head . they used monkey's all so but they don't mention that ( they had .no ideal.
I vist her 1 time .iwas a little girl
But i remember seeing how big and white. That Building )(place was all them sick people looking like zombies and it was just scary.
.....she was sick off and on from the age of 25 . she died in and out patient house in rome ga.😢
I started have mental issue's.
9 24 12 was my 3rd . Episode .
Iam 62.now saved and delivered from mental illness I thank God everyday Jesus my Lord and Savior for my right mind 🙆🏾♂️i am health and healed.
A generational curse brokeN.
# by all means if you are having mental health problems.#don't be ashamed#get Help( its well advance now. and remember take your meds if needed and exercising is so important. Not constantly)🤭dont worry bout what people will think ?.Now that would crazy)( facts TAKE CARE OF U.SO U CAN TAKE CARE OF OTHERS . 🚶
.pray
And seek Jesus .📖 .😊be encouraged.❣️ 💃 may is mental health awareness and iam aware and u should B.
I was there,,,,,fkuall.
I was at the bar bell that was. Lock down one the staff people he was drinking on the job. I was gonna turn him in for he told me I did he was gonna make sure was not gonna get out of there alive