Off Kings Highway, these once-riotous festival grounds now sit abandoned, the Tudor-style structures slowly being consumed by the wild woodlands of Virginia. Virginia Renaissance Faire in Fredericksburg has since been forsaken by the unkind passage of time. There’s something about old, abandoned places that causes the mind to wander.
What are some abandoned places in Virginia? Given all of this, it’s no surprise that this former hospital is now the home to many a lore and legend, and some of the most hair-raising ghost stories in Virginia. Patients were given beds and other “luxuries,” while activities like lectures, concerts, and visits into town were provided along with a library and workshops for sewing, carpentry, and shoemaking to teach practical skills.
When John Minson Galt II took over the hospital in 1841, conditions improved as “moral management” began being used for treatment, emphasizing self-control, work therapy, and leisure activities. Founded in 1773, the Public Hospital was built at a time when mental illness was not diagnosed by a doctor, but rather by a jury-like group of 12 citizens who gave a verdict of “criminal, lunatic, or idiot.” As with many early asylums, conditions were barbaric and patients lived in small cells outfitted with only a straw mattress and chamber pot. While DeJarnette Sanitarium is the most notoriously haunted sanitarium in Virginia, there are many, many more abandoned asylums and hospitals in the Old Dominion. The Public Hospital in Colonial Williamsburg is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the nation and the first hospital specifically purposed for treatment of the mentally ill. Is DeJarnette Sanitarium the only haunted sanitarium in Virginia?
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