4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

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yall need to spend a night in there and ten u will never wanna see pics of it again try it like i did BUT u have to do it on the 30th of october and trust me you will be shooke
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i was in this room when i broke into it crazy shit
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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!
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you have done an awsome job with this site. me and friends regulary "visit" norwich and i am very sad to hear about utopia. it is just such a cool creepy place to go especially on a full moon night. i am sad that my days of doing this are now running out.
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Thats a real bummer!
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This one is awesome.
I just can't peel my eyes from that bed...
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If only she still looked like this...we stopped dead in our tracks when we walked in here.
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It's pretty destroyed...some pieces are on the ground, but it's gone gone gone.
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Grr.
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Pardon me! Temper temper!
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I've said what I've said and that's all I'm saying - so quit trying to get me to say more than what's already been said.
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Ha!! is french for assHat!!..lol
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What does Ha!! mean?!!!
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Ha!! That's all I'm saying.
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If I have read the comments from others correctly, this was a forensics unit. That would explain the use of this type of mesh doors. If you had ever had to work in a forensic mental health unit before medications were readily available, you would have been quite thankful for the strong wire mesh doors.