The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum was founded in 1821 and was one of the first public mental hospitals in the country. In 1900, more than 1,000 patients in its first building, although many died.

(WBOY) — Over the years, the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum has garnered somewhat of ... spoke extensively with 12 News about ...

Inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, in the small town of Weston, it’s five or 10 degrees colder. The heating hasn’t worked since the Weston State Hospital -- as the mental institution ...

Never in the history of Columbus was there such a conflagration as that at the Lunatic Asylum, of which we gave a hasty and necessary partial account yesterday, as all ?? of rumors were Bring ...