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  2. Waverly Hills Sanatorium - Wikipedia

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    The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former sanatorium located in the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis – known as the "White Plague" – which prompted the construction of a new hospital. The Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a two-story facility able ...

  3. Western State Hospital (Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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    History. Construction began in 1848, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on The Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, which began admitting patients in 1854. Later renamed Western State Hospital, the facility currently operates as an inpatient center for the treatment of mental illness. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

  4. Eastern State Hospital (Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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    Eastern State Hospital, located in Lexington, Kentucky, is the second oldest Psychiatric Hospital in the United States. [1] It operates today as a psychiatric hospital with 239 beds [2] providing inpatient care. Eastern State Hospital is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, operated by the University of Kentucky 's UK HealthCare and falls ...

  5. Central State Hospital (Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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    By 1900, its official name had been changed to the Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane. By 1912 it was known as Central State Hospital. Comparable institutions are Eastern State Hospital at Lexington in Fayette County and Western State Hospital at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky. All three were administered by the Board of ...

  6. Octagon Hall - Wikipedia

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    80001667 [1] Added to NRHP. April 10, 1980. Octagon Hall is an eight-sided house in Simpson County, Kentucky near Franklin, Kentucky completed around 1860. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] It has also been known as the Andrew Jackson Caldwell House after the man who built the house.

  7. Ephraim McDowell House - Wikipedia

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    Ephraim McDowell (November 11, 1771 – June 25, 1830) was an American physician. He was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia and moved with his family to Danville, Kentucky in 1784. He studied under Dr. Humphrey in Staunton, Virginia, then attended lectures in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1793 to 1794 and studied ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Hamm shed his haunted demeanor. He cut his bangs so they no longer shielded his eyes, and his manner became more direct. Late one evening, in the second-floor library, Hamm gave a new resident a pep talk. The newbie had detoxed at a separate facility, but during his three-week wait to enter Grateful Life he had relapsed.

  9. Kindred Spirits (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Amy and Adam visit Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. Considered the most haunted location in America, the massive building houses countless spirits, but a dangerous entity on the fourth floor is cause for major concern.