605 Comments for Marlboro State Hospital

That’s really sad how an entire life gone by and all that remains of it. Is a number no name or anything a life marked by 124 on a piece of stone no taller then my night table lamp. Also another amazing pic.

Welcome to Michigan everyone.

what an awesome pic. I'm thinking wallpaper?

soooo werid, but cool pic, Still what an odd note lol

I agree with Deb, it does look awesome.

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 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.

Is that note written by same person, or is it first a call for help or something, and then a answer from somebodyelse, a friend, hwo walked away to tell the police that she or he´s friend have been locked in some room, maybe a isolation room. You can´t talk or scream from an isolation door...and then wrote a note and paste it through the door opening down there, dont know what it is in english...chink, narrow opening something like that. Sorry im just a swedish girl:-P try to solve this curies note....But why wrote "see you tomorrow" hwo wants to spend a night in an old psyhcohospital:-S..wellwell!