Moose Lake State Hospital Cemetery
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Moose Lake State Hospital Cemetery

Moose Lake, Carlton County, Minnesota, USA

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    Moose Lake, Minnesota, USA
    Coordinates: 46.43722, -92.75148
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Source: Minnesota Historical Society Library - Moose Lake State Hospital

In 1935 the Minnesota legislature established a commission to locate a fourth state hospital in the northeastern section of the state. They selected land adjacent to the village of Moose Lake in Carlton County. Construction began in November 1936, and the hospital accepted its first patients, transfers from the Fergus Falls and St. Peter state hospitals, on May 2, 1938. 


Source: Minnesota Historical Society Library - Remembering with Dignity

Over the course of their history, Minnesota's state hospitals were home to tens of thousands of people with disabilities or diagnoses of psychiatric conditions. Around 13,000 of those who died at these institutions were buried in cemeteries with only numbers to identify them. Remembering With Dignity is a group formed from members of Advocating Change Together and other self-advocacy organizations in 1994 with the goal of installing new gravestones in these cemeteries marked with names and dates in order to restore personhood to those denied it in the past. The group received state funding for the first time in 1997, which allowed it to order granite headstones with names and birth and death dates to accompany the numbered slabs.

Source: Minnesota Historical Society Library - Moose Lake State Hospital

In 1935 the Minnesota legislature established a commission to locate a fourth state hospital in the northeastern section of the state. They selected land adjacent to the village of Moose Lake in Carlton County. Construction began in November 1936, and the hospital accepted its first patients, transfers from the Fergus Falls and St. Peter state hospitals, on May 2, 1938. 


Source: Minnesota Historical Society Library - Remembering with Dignity

Over the course of their history, Minnesota's state hospitals were home to tens of thousands of people with disabilities or diagnoses of psychiatric conditions. Around 13,000 of those who died at these institutions were buried in cemeteries with only numbers to identify them. Remembering With Dignity is a group formed from members of Advocating Change Together and other self-advocacy organizations in 1994 with the goal of installing new gravestones in these cemeteries marked with names and dates in order to restore personhood to those denied it in the past. The group received state funding for the first time in 1997, which allowed it to order granite headstones with names and birth and death dates to accompany the numbered slabs.

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