Central State Hospital, late 1800s

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Chartered in 1837, the State Lunatic Asylum, later Central State Hospital, opened in Milledgeville in 1842. Hospital staff under Dr. Thomas A. Green treated numerous Civil War veterans suffering from the effects of battle after the war ended in 1865.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # bal025.

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Central State Hospital, late 1800s

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