Hospital closing files, 1980-1982.

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Hospital closing files, 1980-1982.

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Correspondence, studies and reports, background materials, budget records, clippings, and miscellany relating to the closing of Rochester State Hospital and transfer of its staff and patients, and to efforts by hospital personnel and the public to resist the closure. Includes files of the Governor's Task Force on the Use and Disposition of the Rochester State Hospital Site. Some items predate the period in which the files were generated or compiled.

1.8 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Rochester State Hospital (Minn.)

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The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery was originally named Rosemont, with the male patients buried south of, and the female patients north of, the road which ran down the center of the cemetery. In 1940, that practice ended and the sites were then filled in sequence of death until the last burial in 1965. Over 2000 bodies and body parts were laid to rest in the cemetery over the institution's existence. The cemetery's location as of 2002 was in the City of Rochester's Qu...