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No flowers or headstones mark the graves, just deliberately arranged rows of trees and a sign: "Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891-1943." The boy had epilepsy and died of a seizure.
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Share full article. July 6, 1862. ... At the Colored Orphan Asylum, ... not a voice of merriment nor a sign of recognition of the day was to be met within its walls.
Immigration. Asylum Isn't As Crazy as Trump Claims The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.
The campaign for Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) spent $540 at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. The former psychiatric hospital is now marketed as a historic and paranormal ...