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Went there and walked around the cemetery and I was using an app and the name Micheal did pop up I never knew anything about Mikey's grave until later on we spoke to a couple locals at Letchworth village and they told us about it ... It was definitely a cool place to visit especially the hospital ... If you have a chance to visit then go you will never forget the experience

Has this got a handle on it? and wheels? It looks like it might have ....Patient (and body) transport....

Looks like an old highschool. Which it became for the kids under drug 'treatment'....ughhhhh...

Thats an awesome photo.

Yeah, staff home.......either docs or nurses....

This is the nurses home isn't it? I've seen it in photos on another site. Nurses homes are similar of course world over. I lived in one once, (Australia) and it was fun. With our red capes and nurses caps. Can see nurses dressed like that running up those stairs...Mary Mallon socialized with the Riverside nurses in that home.

This is in the TB Pavilion??? So, yep, likely in a room lined in lead. Chest x rays galore....

No, they were the usual food fridges in all types of large institutions well into the early 80's. The islands morgue is separate/ a long way from the wards, nurses home, doctors quarters etc. Which was the norm too.

Hmmm, yes, that puts a chill up the spine. Soon as I saw it, 'psych ward' comes to mind. I too worked in one 40+ years ago, as another has written here. Not in North America, but they were/are the same world over. Nurses station indeed, through the internal window/opening. Its a very 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' situation. There were indeed nurses like N. Rachett, not many, but that was too many. Working with those types of fiends was hard. I ended up on the other side of the nurses station for a few weeks once, hahaha and that was the ultimate. Experiencing both sides of it all. Knowing exactly what was going on in the nurses station and the staffroom freaked them out more than it did me. This is an amzing place, its history is fascinating. I found it while researching Mary Mallon. Thanks for the photos...

Trust and believe signs are up and visible

I don't know if this site is even active anymore, I honestly just left The Ladd School. When I first moved back to RI I was in high school and did a project on this location, it's taken me years to actually visit it and to be honest. I'm not even sure what's still standing, it was so dark and I'm not going to lie, my body froze, my mind which I cant recall even thinking put my car into a complete uturn and I flew out of there. Just being on that land is something I cant describe, its sooo heavy, its beyond heavy. I can still fell it and I live in Cumberland, kind you I also visited Mercy Brown's gravesite right after which was nothing compared to The Ladd School. I do not know if I could go back, I want to, I need to know what's left. The graves of the children, have they been disturbed which I feel they have. I'm shocked more shows haven't visited this property, its extremely live and I'm not someone who summons spirits or speaks with the deceased, I just know what I felt. I know what I still feel and I know I will be on google all night....

I was at yorkwoods 1986-1987. It was an intresting experience. I only remember
Certain things about that place but no everything. I was across the street at yorkwoods at they would have the girls go to the main hospital for school and etc .we had to ride on a bus.The room i was in , i shared with another girl .the bathroom was a big room like u would see in a locker room at a school .there was this one room i remember because this girl in there was put into a bed and restrained with those buckle things for the hands and feet then was given a shot of something.one girl tried to throw a chair out of the window .there was a padded room but i was only in there once.As a teenager i remember some of staff werent really all that nice . i ran away so iam not sure about alot of experiences and i think was put there as a form of punishment because not one time i did take any pills.

I can still hear the sound of these generators running. My dad was a stationary engineer for to DOC and I used to go with him to work a lot. I know every inch of this plant and spent my childhood exploring this island from I guess 1965'ish to mid 1970's

There was fire in one of the main buildings in 95 when it was still limping along. They tried to keep going after that but the health dept stepped in 5 years later

Does anyone know how to find out info on Babies being born in 1968 at Jensen Hall ??
I guess I was born there in Dec of 68