Northern State Mental Hospital Stories
Established in 1909 the hospital was a self sufficient facility with a number of production buildings including a 700 acre farm.
Northern state mental hospital stories. Parts of the site are still in use and off limits but the farm is now a recreation area. A bughouse in bug town. It is located just north of the skagit river near the town of sedro woolley. Stroll along the wide pastoral trails amongst the buildings and cemetery.
The town was after all originally named bug by its first settler mortimer cook thanks to the copious amounts of mosquitoes in the area. But its buildings still tell stories. Some people think the derogatory name bughouse came from the northern state hospital being built in sedro woolley. The northern state mental hospital in sedro woolley has an absolutely fascinating history.
Once the largest hospital for mentally ill people in washington state northern state mental hospital was a town unto itself. Established in 1909 the northern state hospital for the mentally ill was a sprawling and remarkably self sufficient facility with a number of production facilities including a 700 acre farm. After it closed down in 1973 the property was handed over to the county to turn into a recreation area. Northern state hospital.
It has a very strong sense of place.