Foxborough State Hospital/Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs & Inebriates & (pict.) From
Other Cemetery Restoration Efforts In Massachusetts:
"This is a closed facility. There are two cemeteries for Foxboro State Hospital and they are not on the grounds. The cemeteries are about an 1/8 of a mile from the hospital on Cross Street. One is close to the road and the other is about 125 yards up into the woods. The names and corresponding grave numbers have been lost. There may be 1,100 former DMH clients buried in the two cemeteries. When researching these cemeteries Pat Deegan noticed that each marker has two sets of numbers. The first list the order in which the burial took place. The second number, on the back of the stone, seems to be a DMH client identification number. It would be relatively easy to reconstruct a list of who is buried based on these numbers. A group would have to get special permission from Commissioner Sudders to match numbers with names but once that was done, a complete list could be reconstructed." As of August 26, 2008, there are apparently at least one or more gravesites still on the state hospital land. Details about the two and possible relocations will be forthoming.
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