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Probably one of my last uploads from my visit to Central State. This is one of the most recently abandoned buildings on the campus. The building next door still houses some of the remaining criminally insane patients.

This signpost in the parking lot is a stark reminder that for many of the people that came to this facility there was no exit and they were confined here for the remainder of their lives.

A chance for a colorful shot at Central State Hospital. Here sits the Binion Building which housed the criminally insane. It has recently been vacated and has a "We Moved" sign prominently displayed in its front lawn and now sits abandoned like many of the other buildings found on this complex.

This is a broken window of the Walker building which is actually one of the bigger buildings in the front part of the Central State Hospital complex located in Milledgeville, GA. The Walker Building was the Male Convalescent Building, built in the 1884. This building served as the admission ward for white males. For many of the thousands of patients that lived here, this was the building they called home for the better part of their adult lives.

Unfortunately due to a lack of funding this building has fallen deep into disrepair. Much of the 3rd floor roof has fallen in, many of the windows are broken out, and the entire building is starting to become overgrown with vines.

This is the Walker building which is actually one of the bigger buildings in the front part of the Central State Hospital complex located in Milledgeville, GA. The Walker Building was the Male Convalescent Building, built in the 1884. This building served as the admission ward for white males. For many of the thousands of patients that lived here, this was the building they called home for the better part of their adult lives.

Unfortunately due to a lack of funding this building has fallen deep into disrepair. Much of the 3rd floor roof has fallen in, many of the windows are broken out, and the entire building is starting to become overgrown with vines.

"Located in Milledgeville, Georgia, is the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities. The CSH complex currently encompasses about 1,750 acres (7.1 km2). The hospital population grew to nearly 12,000 in the 1960s. During the following decade, the population began to decrease due to the emphasis on deinstitutionalization, the addition of other public psychiatric (regional) hospitals throughout the state, the availability of psychotropic medications, an increase in community mental health programs, and many individuals moving to community living arrangements."

The CSH campus now sits almost entirely abandoned aside from a few patient care and prison buildings still housing patients and inmates. Being here is like being in a ghost town, and the ambiance is indescribable. Hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, houses, factories, warehouses, cemeteries, roads all sit abandoned across these hundreds of acres.

Because police heavily patrol the area, this was one of the only shots I was able to get in the short time we were on the campus before we were harassed by a local deputy. Pictured is one of the many gates surrounding various areas of the premises. Even though the gate and road are fallen into somewhat disrepair, this is one of the better kept areas of the complex.