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Sunday afternoon at the Luntic Asylum

By Emily | Published: August 27, 2009

West Virginia's Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is the second largest hand-cut stone building in the world -- second only to the Kremlin. Built between 1858 and 1881, the now-crumbling estate housed civil war soldiers, TB patients, the criminally insane and thousands of others. The place is crumbling, creepy and provides a disturbing looking into the history of mental illness.

Posted in West Virginia | Also tagged Appalachia, insane asylum, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, travel, West Virginia, Weston, WV | Leave a comment

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