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 		State hospital history
It's fascinating to read deeper in google to find articles and photos of this hospital "Cambridge State Hospital" (originally for epileptics).

And there really is a cemetery with unmarked (except for numbers) gravestones.

Recently there have been some attempts to identify burial plots.

Here is one article I found tonight:
Quote:
Remembering Them by Name

By Tesha M. Wiedemann
reprinted from STAR, Cambridge, MN May 31, 2003

Project of replacing headstones at state hospital cemetery complete

Long overdue, the people buried at the Cambridge State Hospital cemetery have now been properly recognized by name on their gravestones.

Previously, those buried at the cemetery were identified by initials and date of death.

That accomplishment was celebrated during a special ceremony on Thursday, May 22, 2003. Emotion ran high at the event and was not dampened by the cold and rainy day.

The cemetery was also given a name, "The Garden of Remembrance", although it can't officially be called that until an act is passed by the state legislature.

Diane Linngren, of National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, told attendees, "We've come a long way in three years. It's a joy to be here today."

The project of replacing all the headstones at the cemetery really began when METO representatives and local sentence-to-service prisoners first cleaned up the cemetery.

Next Remembering With Dignity and NAMI got involved and began petitioning the legislature to pay for new headstones to replace the old ones. Last May, the task of replacing the headstones began with three. Over the summer, Braham Monument worked to replace all the others.

"It's really been a privilege to be part of this," stated Mike Patterson of Braham Monument. "Keep up the fight."

RWD is still working to replace the 7000 headstones at other state hospital facilities.

The day was especially poignant for former Cambridge State Hospital resident Dorothy Anderson. "Seeing the new gravestone markers that have been put in the cemetery makes me think of the years I lived at the Cambridge State Hospital," she said. "Those are years I remember with mixed feelings. Some of the times were bad and some times it was okay. I wouldn't want to go back. I am glad that the people I knew when I lived here will now be remembered by name. They were my roommates and my friends, and we should not forget them."

The 58-year-old woman shared some of her memories of what life was like at the state hospital during her 29 years there. "I didn't have any toys to play with. The clothes I wore I shared with the other people there. There were no blankets to keep us warm. We slept on mattresses on the floor with no pillows and slept in our clothes… There was nothing to do but sit and watch TV. The days were endless and boring."

She noted that when she got older, she worked various jobs at the facility. "I earned $1 a day. I would spend my money for treats and things that I needed like shampoo, toothpaste and deodorant. It was nice to get out of my cottage and go to a job at some other building on the grounds. At least I got to meet new people."

Anderson was proud to say, "I have come a long way since I lived in the state hospital. We all have come a long way since those days. I am happy to say that I work at a job I love. I live in a residence with three other ladies that I have good times with. I go out to eat and to movies, too. I feel that I am a valued member of my community. I enjoy my life."

Ruth Mossberg also spoke during the ceremony. She had recently learned that her older sister, Mary Jo, was a resident of CSH until her death in 1978 and was buried there in the cemetery. "Today I am here with my family to celebrate the restoration (of the cemetery). For all of you who have been involved, I thank you."

Former state senator Twyla Ring marked the emotional event by acknowledging, "none of us could do it alone, but we did it together."

"This is truly a noble project," remarked Cambridge Mayor Marlys Palmer. She noted that the credit for the project's completion "belongs to members of the disabled community, and I congratulate you."

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 		Who is buried at CSH?
Probably not important, but I found a listing of many folks buried at the cemetery of another asylum in MN:

State Hospital/Asylum Obituary Record - Hastings, Minnesota

Found the obituaries of some people who really worked there:

Pauline Regehr Anderson

Pauline was born June 19, 1951 in Mt. Lake to Henry and Mabel Regehr.
She grew up on a dairy farm. She attended country school for one year by Long Siding. The rest of her school years were spent at Ogilvie Public School. She graduated in 1969. She worked for a family farm, Bunny and Lee Johnston, for the summer where she took care of their children and helped with other work.

She attended Pine City Vo-Tech and then went on to work at the Cambridge State Hospital in the office.


Jane Anderson

Funeral services for Jane Evaline Anderson, 78, Cambridge, formerly of Bethel, took place Feb. 21 at the West Bethel United Methodist Church. Rev. Mike Sullivan officiated.

Anderson died away Feb. 18 at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital. She was born June 28, 1925 in Bethel to Walter and Bessie Wyatt. She was a graduate of St. Francis High School and was retired from Cambridge State Hospital.

Thelma S. Peterson

Thelma S. Peterson passed away on April 5, 2002 at the Grandview Christian Home in Cambridge, Minn, at the age of 81.

Thelma Sophie Peterson was born on August 26, 1920 to S. Robert and Ellen Marie Swensen in Duluth, Minn. She grew up in Duluth and graduated from Duluth Central High School.

Thelma worked for the Cambridge State Hospital from 1960 until her retirement in 1982.
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Emericana wrote:
Anyone want to check the drawings for steg? Stegdetect picked up something on patientpicture42.jpg, but I don't know where to go from there...


Well, I ran it through Stegbreak with a pretty comprehensive dictionary and no joy.

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C:\stegdetect>stegbreak -r rules.ini -f d9.dic patientpicture42.jpg
Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code
Loaded 1 files...
patientpicture42.jpg : negative
Processed 1 files, found 0 embeddings.
Time: 1500 seconds: Cracks: 11473846, 7649.2 c/s


The JPG data does look a little fishy to Stegdetect, and of course my brute force dictionary attack could be missing something obvious. But it could also be a false positive, which happens with these tools sometimes. I'll poke around the rest of these images tomorrow just in case and will post if anything turns up.

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 		http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/patients1.html

This patient artwork is, supposedly, signed "Beatrice Doe". This strikes me as very unusual that, even a patient of a mental hospital, would refer to *themselves* as having the last name Doe.

Why not just Beatrice? Or why not guess a last name for yourself?

Could you imagine an amnesiac asking people to call her Jane or Miss Doe?

I'm not sure where to go with this, but there could be something here.

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 		http://www.cambridgementalhospital.com/updates61104.html

Maybe I'm just losing my memory, but was

"Have a safe trip Fran and Earl!"

there a couple of days ago? I don't recall him naming the couple, because I went checking the Dream Projector website for the woman who lived in Florida to see if she'd be old enough to have worked at the Hospital.

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 		I'm pretty sure that was there sine the first day we found the site... Check around the urban hunt thread, I think I say those names in there.

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 		I'm new to this so Hi everybody.

One of the patient pictures bears a more than passing resemblence to the Tarot card The Moon. Dunno if that's of any significance.

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Eolirin wrote:
I'm new to this so Hi everybody.

One of the patient pictures bears a more than passing resemblence to the Tarot card The Moon. Dunno if that's of any significance.


Hi Eolirin.
All spec is good. That is the beauty of the collective mind working together. We all bring our own knowledge to the table and combine to discover new things. I do not know tarot. Which picture? Can you put the specific link in your post so we can click on it and instantly know which picture you are talking about?
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Eolirin wrote:
I'm new to this so Hi everybody.

One of the patient pictures bears a more than passing resemblence to the Tarot card The Moon. Dunno if that's of any significance.


Were you talking about this?



I see what you're saying, but I think a face in the moon like that is a bit of a common allegory. The castle gates are harder to explain away. Smile

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 		So are the two wolves. Or dogs.

Oh my, is there a very faint road between them in there too?

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 		What does the moon tarot card stand for?

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RobMagus wrote:
What does the moon tarot card stand for?


http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/meanings/moon.shtml
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 		Creativity and madness. Mental problems.

Seems rather appropriate for a patient at a mental hospital.

Hmm.

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RobMagus wrote:
Creativity and madness. Mental problems.

Seems rather appropriate for a patient at a mental hospital.

Hmm.


hence the term "lunatic"

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hence the term "lunatic"


ooo, good call.

lunatic - moonstruck, insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
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