Norwich State Hospital, Connecticut

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The Norwich State Hospital, located in Preston, Connecticut and Norwich, Connecticut, was a mental health facility for almost a century, from October 1905 to its closure on October 10. 1996. The population of the hospital peaked in the mid-1950's, when it had almost 3,000 patients. The future of the hospital property is now in doubt, as a group called Utopia Studios tried to develop the site but it was rejected in a referendum. It is widely believed by the locals that Norwich State Hospital is haunted and is a favorite place for ghost hunters. There were once plans to demolish part of the site to build something new, but those plans were put to a stop when excavators dug up human bones immediately into the digging. There has been talk of turning the former mental ward into a museum. There are no plans for the site at this time.

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• Salmon (male forensic) building Photoessay on the building reserved for male patients deemed "not guilty by reason of insanity" in court.
• .designedbreakdown. Short history and photo gallery exhibiting present-day decay on the site.
• Norwich State Hospital at Creepy Connecticut