1 Comments Posted by Ifile-tu

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Was just sent the addy to your site by my son. Gorgeous photographs. We lived in the Norwich/Groton area for 21 years during the 70's & 80's. And, we remember Norwich State Hospital well.
Back in Minnesota now and working to restore all that's left of the Rochester State Hospital... it's cemetery. Over 2000 souls are buried there, only a very few of whom have markers of any kind left. Luckily, an accurate plat of the burials exists. Soon, many of them will be once again identified! We are also searching for the earlier cemetery which had 76 burials. For that, we also have a fine plat of the burials....but very little idea of where that actual cemetery sits. Sadly, all the wonderful buildings were deemed unrepairable and have been torn down. What a sad waste of what were truely incredible buildings....an entire *city* run by the inmates. Even a quarry! I hope NSH doesn't suffer the same fate. We're, as a nation, becoming too easily persuaded to just *get rid of the old stuff and replace it with new, modern stuff*. As a genealogist, I hate that attitude. We're losing our history!