Tewksbury State Hospital & Public Health Museum/ Insane Asylum
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Today we visit the Historic Tewksbury Hospital where many mentally ill people were treated and housed and the public Health Museum.
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I worked at Tewksbury Hospital for almost 38 years. I've lived on the hospital grounds throughout the 1980's and into the early 1990's. I visited the two cemeteries frequently over the years, and they do indeed tell a story of those who were patients. You got to go visit the Public Health Museum, also located on the hospital grounds. It's very informative!
Robert "Bob" Mayo (retired 2019)
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Very interesting, thank you! I stopped by myself a few years ago, mainly because of Anne Sullivan. Helen Keller was a childhood hero of mine and I had the supreme privilege of meeting her 2 years before she died. Unfortunately, Anne was long gone by then. Thanks a lot guys!
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Interesting video. The old state hospitals are fascinating.
Glad to hear you enjoyed. I thought it was one of the most interesting places we've visited!
Great video! My husband grew up on Whipple Rd and his grandfather sold their farmland to the hospital. I need to visit the museum when we go back next!
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Great video ! I went to the public health museum a few years ago and found it very interesting. I also used to work for the state pharmacy in the early 2000's and got to deliver medications to all the MA State Hospitals.
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My grandmother was a nurse there in the 1970’s, she retired about 1977, she was the head nurse on a ward that was all men. The patients were chronic patients with things like cerebral palsy, or chronic alcoholism, or wheelchair confined. Now a days these patients would be in a group home or some kind of assisted living arrangement. There was one patient that was very good at fixing watches and made a little spending money fixing the watches of staff members and their families. I remember her showing us around the grounds before they had torn down a bunch of the buildings. There was these cute little cottages all lined up in a row, she explained they were isolation units for TB patients. There was an outer and an inner room. The patient was inside and the nurse had a bed in the outer room. The nurse was confined there with the patient for weeks at a time, food medicine etc was delivered there and the nurse provided all the direct patient care. I guess that’s one way to stop the spread of infection, unless you are the nurse. Wearing a mask was extremely important back then I’m sure!
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I love how they used to just dump the body’s in the woods in unmarked graves
They do have a marker but it doesn't say who it is.
@@hipbeeexplorer ya most of them are just a white rock they probably didn’t even put them in a box just dumped like trash
@@hipbeeexplorer no why would they Tewksbury state hospital needs to be shut down and be responsible for the crimes they have done
@@jimcatanzaro7808 relax bud there have been much worse things than this
@@FezCaliph like what ?
Great job! Very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
For the past 95+ years, my great-great aunts, great-great uncles, great-aunts, and great-uncles and grandmother tried to figure out what happened to my great-great grandfather. At the time he “disappeared”, he was the only man in Massachusetts to have his name. I got a census hit on Ancestry that listed him as an “inmate” here, and I’m trying to figure out how to confirm whether or not it was actually him at TSH so that I can give both myself and my living ancestors some closure.
Call and ask or go there if you can but there was a fire that destroyed some years worth of records. Call the public health museum in Tewksbury. They may be able to help you.
He was probably buried under in the jr high like most of them
@@jimcatanzaro7808 what do you mean
@@jps4845 There was another Tewksbury State cemetery up the street on the grounds of the school. It was not recognized, and a school was built there.
@@LarsonsMom there are some small stones up there with numbers. they are unlike the metal markers but rather clay pegs in the ground and one headstone that is named
Very interesting to see the old buildings and medical devices and treatments. I grew up in Woburn and had heard of this hospital but I didn't realize what a large and historic facility it really was. Thanks for producing this!
Thanks Bob for the comments and subscribing to our new channel! We're in Billerica, not too far from Woburn.
@@hipbeeexplorer are you from Billerica or just visited? I lived in Billerica my entire life until moving to Tewksbury recently. Hope to see you up north this season!
Great video. This is one of my favorite places to walk. Decent size trail system.
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Thank you for doing this video.
You're quite welcome Deb!
Great video! I never would have guessed there were 10,000 graves in the cemetery, where I take my dog for walks.
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Great presentation. Worked there in 70’s. The tunnels and cells are worth including in the museum.
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Interesting subject
Was a good topic for 2020. Thank you for watching and commenting. Peace.
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Right on!
My Great Grand Uncle could be in this cemetery, he was John Roy died in 1893 Feb 28th. From TB, he immigrated from Scotland and was a gardener. I have his death record but no record of his burial. He would have been alone, and with no money, which is why I think his resting place may be here. If I could find him, I would come over from UK, he has family and is not forgotten.
They have records at the Public Health Museum. I think you can call and get that information.
@@hipbeeexplorer Thank you, I'll email them from UK, a phone call is expensive from here !
Great video~ Thank you so much for posting! My daughter and I took a trip there one Saturday and did a walking tour of the grounds. Well worth it. Museum staff was knowledgeable and had some fun facts mixed in with the history.
Thank you Nancy! I agree, it's quite an interesting and educational place. I walk the trails there often and always peaceful.
lovely video
I lived on Chandler Street 5 houses down from the hospital in the 1960s. Beautiful hospital but patients were always escaping. It was terrifying when we’d get notified by the police that a patient had left the grounds.
I live in Billerica but I knew people who lived in that area and they told me about the warnings.
Wow thank you! Very interesting, so many artifacts!
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Some of the body’s are behind the old jr high
Yes, we tried to find the graves but we didn't find them.
@@hipbeeexplorer I know where they all are there all over the place behind the baseball Fields on Livingston st I’m glad there marking them I see a lot on east street in the forest I’m sure they did all types of experiments on the people there was also one in North Reading that they took down
I have walked through here but never been in the museum but im going to soon
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Very cool!!
Thank you for watching Jeremy. Peace.
Excellent video
Thank you and thank you for commenting. It's worth a visit if you are in the area. It's a creepy place.
The woman didn’t say how long Anne Sullivan was there. I’m curious how long she and her brother stayed there.
Thank you for watching. I'm not sure but I'm sure they know. If you are in the area you could visit the museum or call the museum of Public Health at the Tewksbury Hospital and ask.
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Yes , I am a native New Englander.
Nice video. Thanks
Helen kellers teacher and her teachers brother were housed there in the poor house he died of Tb. It was horrid
yes. It's talked bout in the video
I was a patient in the sauders building for long periods of time I was abused mentally physically and emotionally the administration and workers were extremely dangerous
Thanks for the information
I'm so sorry that happened to you. That's horrible. I hope you're doing well
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This place is spooky