4 Nov 1834 - In his annual address to the state legislature, Governor Wilson Lumpkin of Georgia suggested establishing a state mental hospital. No action was taken until 1837, when a building appropriation was passed. The state's first mental hospital, the Georgia State Sanatarium at Milledgeville, was opened in December 1842. The hospital was later [1929] named Milledgeville State Hospital and is now [since 1967] Central State Hospital.¹

State Lunatic Asylum. - Number of buildings for patients, 2. Size of buildings - height, four stories; langth, 129 feet; width, 39 feet. Number of rooms for patients in each of the two buildings, exclusive of those used for bathing purposes, etc., 63; size of thoserooms, ten feet by nine. Extent of ground at present belonging to the Asylum, forty acres.²

The Central State Hospital Museum is located in the Old Train Depot on Broad Street on the campus of CSH and highlights the 150 year existence of the hospital. For information call (912) 453-6889.

1850 Federal Census, State Asylum for the Insane

1860 Federal Census, State Asylum for the Insane

Cemetery Memorial Project

Records Available from Central State Hospital

1. A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Addenda, W. R. Street (1994)
2. Historical Collections of Georgia, Rev. George White, New York 1855

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