Spring Grove Museum

If you ever get the chance, i'd recommend heading over to the Spring Grove museum. It's only open on Thursdays from 9am - 12pm, which is why it's taken me so long to make it over. It's run by a bunch of retired Spring Grove employees, who now volunteer to keep up the museum. It's not very large, but pretty interesting to walk through. Spring Grove was actually the second psychiatric hospital in the country, started back in the 1700's, so there's quite a bit of history to see there! Here's a couple pics. Sorry for the poor quality, but i only had my iPhone with me today. Check out my flickr site for many more. Clicking on any of the pictures should take you there.


This is the Foster Wade building, which is easily the creepiest building on campus. It's been locked up and condemned for many years, and I will not divulge if I've ever been in the building. If I had though, I'd tell you that it's far worse inside than out, especially at night, on Halloween! The dedication stone by the entrance reads, "Psychopathic Building," so that ought to give you an idea how old it is. This is only one part of it...it's a huge building.


If you weren't psychotic before you arrived at Spring Grove, this would certainly help to get you there!


The heavy restrain chair....this is what they used to get control of you before the days of chemical restraints


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Some very interesting old articles...check out the titles!


Old electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) machine