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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
Feb 6, 2019
Description:
I happened to see a building full of trees--the one in the upper right of this photo. It looks dead. No one seems to have gone in there for many years.
Date Taken:
2019-02-04
Place Taken:
Near Petersburg, VA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
- Photo HTML
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Don Maxwell - Feb 05,2019
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"What is it?" I said aloud, although no one could hear me.
I circled around to see it from the other side. A corner of it is in the bottom center of the frame. It seems to be an institutional setting--but what institution? Very strange. I'll have to drive there for a closer look.
(You can zoom in by clicking a couple of times.)
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Don Maxwell - Feb 05,2019
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Here's the Google-eye view. The "institution" is smack in the center. I could smell a story even at 1,200 feet AGL.
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 05,2019
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Looks spooky. An old insane asylum closed because the inmates rioted to overthrow Nurse Ratchet’s authoritarian
regime?
Do tell if you investigate. Inquiring want need to know.
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Ken Leonard - Feb 05,2019
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Lots of fences and tiny Windows. Prison?
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Don Maxwell - Feb 05,2019
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Well, Carol immediately said, "Why are you posting a photo of the prison?" She even had a name for it, although I immediately forgot it. I had already zoomed in with Google Maps to see a fences around a few of the buildings. But I'd also seen signs that didn't seem directly connected to any prisons I've heard about, such as this one I found in Google's street view. So I'll go have another look.
Anyway, it's another example of what you might notice if you're flying around in a Searey, not trying desperately to get from A to B.
sign
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Wayne Nagy - Feb 05,2019
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I'm with Ken....
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Don Maxwell - Feb 06,2019
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Carol and I drove over there today to see it from ground level. Here we are, turning in at the sign above, that I found in the GoogleMaps street view: DEPARTMENT of BEHAVIORAL HEALTH and DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES. Whatever that might be.
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Don Maxwell - Feb 06,2019
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Don Maxwell - Feb 06,2019
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Eventually we came to two blue water towers that I recognized from flying over the place. They helped me orient myself, and from there on the navigation was relatively easy.
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Don Maxwell - Feb 06,2019
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Don Maxwell - Feb 06,2019
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After some time we figured out that we were in what used to be called Central State Hospital. Before that it was the Central State Lunatic Asylum. The Wikipedia entry says, "The hospital served only African Americans until the Civil Rights Acts of 1964." Even after that it wasn't much of a refuge for the inmates. As recently as 1980, some 1700 inmates were sterilized against their will there.
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Don Maxwell - Feb 06,2019
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Even Wikipedia seems to be distressed by Central State. Here's another article, from Wiki2, called "Central State Republished":
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