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Nuts for Cemeteries II- Connecticut Valley Hospita LbNA #55460

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 1, 2010
Location:
City:Middletown
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:2
Planted by:Einstein
Found by: burning feet (2)
Last found:Dec 18, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFOFF
Last edited:Nov 19, 2015
Connecticut Valley Hospital, was the state’s first public hospital to provide care and treatment for persons who were poor with mental illness, opening its doors in 1868. The cemetery of Connecticut Valley Hospital was established in 1878 and continued to bury people until 1957, when state burial policies changed and the local town plots took on the responsibility for all burials. And as with many asylum cemeteries which conducted burials during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, the hospital administration followed the then-common practice of not identifying persons by name on their headstones, inscribing the stones with just a number as the only public identification of the person buried in that plot. The main reason for this lack of naming was the impact of stigma towards persons with mental illness, and the shame associated with it.

Connecticut Valley Hospital Cemetery is located on Silvermine Rd, Middletown (it connects Silver St. & Bow Ln.) The cemetery is located midway on the gravel road.

Box#1- ****Box 1 Has been RETIRED*******
Look for the tall, white "Connecticut Valley Hospital Cemetery Directory" monument. Park there, from the monument you will walk approx. 80 paces NE to the big maple tree. Check the hole, up in the tree

Box#2- Head back to the Directory monument. Across the street, from the monument, you will find a yellow hydrant in the field. Go to the hydrant. Please be careful of "rabbit" holes & actually found a well covered w/ slabs of stone. Walk approx. 37 paces North, to the first row of markers. You will see a row of cedars slightly to your left. Go to the 2nd cedar, to the right, look inside the bush, please be careful of thorns & posion ivy, in season.
***UPDATE*** BOX #2 IS BACK IN IT"S RIGHTFUL SPOT>>>

Please be discreet, even though it is a cemetery, it sometimes can be busy w/ walkers & sometimes kids. If your into "ghosts", this place is active...