505 Comments for Dever State School

have u ever gotten got by law enforcement motts?

i agree with babyxbatt. if i'm feeling down or bored, nothing beats going to dever and snapping a few pics!

Lynn,

You are correct , for the most part... You did in fact leave out the "bad" things that were going on inside the school. Please keep in mind these children were outcast by their family, doctors & society. There was no explination why these children were the way they were. There were very many horrible explainations (which today do not make sense) of what was wrong with them. Although many were taken care of, a lot of them were horribly tortured. The things that went on there were inhumane.

I can appreciate you ripping people new asses because of their ignorance of the Dever school but please do not allow yourself to fall into the same catergory.

As for your "btw comment"... they were in fact military, i guess you could call them jails, during WWII. They housed German & Italian prisoners.

Good luck with your further research before you decide to say who is ignorant and who is not.

i been there a lot latley just tryna figure out the grounds im still looking for pool and playground was it indoors? (playground)

i been there a lot latley just tryna figure out the grounds im still looking for pool and playground was it indoors? (playground)

I adore this place. maybe cuz it was the first place I went to. but I love just sitting there. I noticed its extremely busy on sundays with people riding their bikes or taking evening jogs.

I was just up there yestrday and saw 2 wheelchairs right in the middle of the rds...you have a great website!!! I'm obsessed with abandoned places and I'm about to check out Foxboro.. U had said its renovated .. Havnt been in years.. Hopefully Rolling hills in the next couple weeks!!!

SMT is right on the money, Taunton is a cesspool

@ dj this isn't a green room, it's a white stairwell

ive been to the place 3 times, once while the state partolled it and twice when the land transfer was made, ive been through the tunnels with freinds, and explored small parts of the complex. Ive been into several of the L shaped builidings. When walking through tunnels u get a uneasy feeling. Unexplained banging occured when i was walking through tunnels. I have also heard screams from the childrens wing, and also have seen a strange shadow in the tunnels. Overall, it is a creepy place. I am not going to say the place is loaded with paranormal activity, however the place can get creepy. check it out, just be carefull

i worked at dever for 25 yrs. good days as i remember. id b happy to answer any of ur questions.... email me....alil66gto@hotmail.comthere was 1500 clients and many more staff at one time. there was a bowling ally, barbar shop, movie theater , canteen, church,work shops, eng. dept, carpenter shop, cobler shop.swiming pool, camp site (boy scouts )school power plant and sewer plant, gas station and garage for motor repair, larage laundry, fite station w small truck, over 200 acers,ele, dept, plumbing dept, play grounds, ect ect ect ect.

OMG i do agree Autumtwin@aol.com that there seems to be alge growing on top of the ceiling. The picture though is a very good shot.I used to go to the NSH to see my grandmother. Then a whole year; on the day of her death day the owner annouced that they were going to close down.

I worked there in 1968-1969. The place then was cold (indoor snowballs, anyone?) ugly and abusive. Attendants would regularly beat residents with their squared gimp key lanyards. No complaints would be heard about this because it required two witnesses for a complaint to be filed--and residents weren't eligible to be witnesses. To go to meals, residents were "issued" random shoes from a pile of old junk with no regard to fit. Then everyone walked through the tunnels which were mostly dark due to missing light bulbs. This gave the cockroaches free reign, crunching underfoot, and occasionally eaten by some poor resident. I was regularly yelled at for taking the time to remove cockroaches from the milk before I poured it for the girls. They had NO activities, no toys, and really nothing to do all day. Only a select few actually went to "school" on the campus. No privacy anywhere--and even the toothbrushes were often distributed randomly. The only dental care was extraction when the infections got bad enough. I could continue on, but it's making me sick to remember it all. There were back wards with deformed people in cages. This was around the time "Titicut Follies" was filmed and the miserable "care" of the less fortunate humans was despicable all over the state.

Heading there soon lol

Can you still get in there now?