Asylum

About This Game

In Batman: Arkham Asylum the player assumes the role of Batman as he delivers The Joker to Arkham Asylum. There, the imprisoned super-villains have set a trap and an immersive combat gaming experience unfolds. With an original script penned by Emmy Award-winning Batman writer Paul Dini, the game brings the universe of DC Comics’ detective to life!

Batman: Arkham Asylum exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure that takes them to the depths of Arkham Asylum — Gotham’s psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Gamers will move in the shadows, instigate fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City’s most notorious villains who have taken over the asylum. Using a wide range of Batman’s gadgets and abilities, players will become the invisible predator and attempt to foil The Joker’s demented scheme.
ESRB Rating: T for Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Blood, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
Genre: Action
Also Available On: PlayStation 3, PC
Release Date: August 25, 2009
MSRP: $59.9

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The building is spooky looking in person, but also seems to have an amazing history. The trouble is that I have heard many different stories about what this place use to be. Some say it was an insane asylum for people who had lost their marbles. Others say it was a quarentined area for those in the 30’s or 40’s who got TB. Some say it was no more than a hosipital and eventually a retirement home…..anyone know anything different?

It is also known as the Taylor Sanitarium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanatorium
"A sanatorium (also sanitorium, sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, typically tuberculosis. A distinction is sometimes made between "sanitarium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium) and "sanatorium" (a hospital)."

1930 census there a 12 women listed as nurses living and working at the Taylor Sanitarium.

An "asylum" is a hospital for mentally disturbed or an unbalanced person. So unless the name was ever attached to this hospital, then I doubt it housed "people who lost their marbles".

Contact the Williamson County Historical or Genealogical Society for more information if they have it.

Any information regarding this subject would be much appreciated!!! Address, history, etc.. Thanks in advance!!

There is a picture of it here:
http://iagenweb.org/dubuque/imagesandphotos.htm

This is a pdf document from a class reunion in 1904 that tells about one doctor who worked there.
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upm/upm7911/med1889/reunion1904.pdf

http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/dk/langhist.htm
LANG FAMILY HISTORY
She is recorded as "insane" in the 1880 Federal Census for Iowa, Dubuque County; and as "queer" and "insane" in the State Hospital for …

http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/1879_jefferson/jefferson_25.htm

http://home.mchsi.com/~rj.rice/polkgen/iowa_polk_base.htm

-At Cedar Rapids John Railsback, a wealthy pioneer, aged 82, was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane. A few days ago he shot and killed Mrs. Railsback, aged 75, in bed, and then professed ignorance as to how she met death.
http://www.iowaoldpress.com/IA/Butler/1910/JUN.html

http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/ia/

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/LightOn/1880wash_15.htm

http://www.homeoint.org/history/king/4-11.htm

http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ia/Jackson/vacant.html

http://db3-sql.staff.library.utah.edu/lucene/Manuscripts/null/Accn0372.xml

Discover the ghastly beginning to the most sinister prison ever created.

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i reaallyyy need to get some info on it for a history project, but i haven’t been able to find any info on it
HELP!!
please!
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try http://pulmonaryasphyxi.tripod.com/ theres also an e-mail if you want further info but don’t know how quick with replies or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby_Psychiatric_Hospital

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I am being evicted. I have no job. I live in Chicago, and I’m white. Any cheap rental or homeless shelters I go to I will be the only white guy there, which will be a very awkward situation, to say the least. I will walk or ride a bicycle anywhere in the country at this point. There is no reason for me to be here anymore. The question is where can I go with no job history, no rental history and bad credit, even if I do find a job? Who will let me rent from them? I have no criminal record, no drugs, or insane asylum history. I’ll walk to f u cking Omaha or whatever. I don’t care.

I know it’s a long way, but the Raleigh-Durham area has the best job market in the U.S. according to Forbes magazine. Albuquerque, N.M. is also high on the list. See if you can find an archive at the library of recent Forbes magazine articles. I’m think that article was in the last 3 months. They analyzed available job markets throughtout the U.S. I’m sure there are some good prospects closer to you, but my memory isn’t that good.

I am being evicted. I have no job. I live in Chicago, and I’m white. Any cheap rental or homeless shelters I go to I will be the only white guy there, which will be a very awkward situation, to say the least. I will walk or ride a bicycle anywhere in the country at this point. There is no reason for me to be here anymore. The question is where can I go with no job history, no rental history and bad credit, even if I do find a job? Who will let me rent from them? I have no criminal record, no drugs, or insane asylum history. I’ll walk to f u cking Omaha or whatever. I don’t care.

i wish i could help but all i can say is dont come to michigan. the economy here is right down the toilet. my husband and i are employed at one of the best factories around these parts and are facing a foreclosure on our home.
please try to be positive, i know this is hard, i cant seem to see the good right now either, but you are not alone.
good luck, i truly wish you the best

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Arkham Asylum is located on the outskirts of Gotham City and is where those of Batman’s foes considered to be legally insane are incarcerated (other foes are incarcerated at Blackgate Penitentiary). Although it has had numerous administrators, recent comic books have featured Jeremiah Arkham.

The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, commonly referred to simply as Arkham Asylum, is a fictional psychiatric hospital in the DC Comics Universe, usually appearing in stories featuring Batman. Many psychopathic criminals from across the DC Universe, mostly from Batman’s own rogues gallery (such as the Joker, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, Bane and Two-Face), have been imprisoned within the Asylum.

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There were two relatives that have since passed that were in this state hospital/asylum in the 1920’s and 1930’s at least. I am kind of stuck on these two individuals in this part of our history.

I didn’t know they closed the state hospital. below is listed a link that may assist you. This hospital has been around since 1879 and probably will be around for more then our life time.