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Great perspective.

Chilling

I can almost feel the lonliness and isolation. This pic gives me the feeling of being totally alone ... awesome pic, motts!!

Thanks for the info; yes these colors were brought out and shifted from an infrared photo (which is usually all a red hue straight out of the camera).

I'm amazed at the vast numbers of tombstones there. It's sad they only have numbers and no names on them.

Tiberivs, I'm not sure... it seems like it was a pretty standard practice to have a patient cemetery for the state hospital until the bodies were put to use as cadavers for medical students or buried in ordinary cemeteries.

It could be a law situation though... albeit far away from this hospital, this excerpt from Salem Online History shows that it was state law:

In this year [1913] also a crematory was put into use on the hospital grounds and all burials in the Asylum Cemetery were disinterred and cremated. Following the enactment of S. B. 109, deaths at "any eleemosynary, penal, or corrective institution of the State of Oregon located at or near to the city of Salem," if unclaimed by a friend or relatives, would be subject to cremation. Their ashes now rest in the Memorial Circle on the western limits of the hospital grounds, "In Memory of Those Who Have Passed Away at the Oregon State Hospital."

Also chck out the very interesting Oregon State Hospital Patient Memorial, as forgotten canisters were re-discovered after sitting in an abandoned building for many years.

I was at North Princeton Development Center last night and saw roach

They said that in weird nj the book

they used a crane level that place i think

Which building is that across the way?

That is so ugly

They trashed acute intensive care

I remember this one http://www.opacity.us/image3983_pink.htm

Rooms in unused buildings are often taken advantage of for storage space, where a hasp might come in handy.

I suppose when a building closes, they do a sweep through to make sure nothing important was left behind... easier to do when the doors are open.

I've only seen doors in major passageways (main corridors, fire escapes, and stairwells) lock automatically.

I don't know exactly how many, but there were definitely a few hundred.