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|Body=  [[Anoka State Hospital|Anoka-Metro Regional Treatment Center]] is the current name of what was originally the First State Asylum for the Insane (1900-1919), Anoka State Asylum (1919-1937), and Anoka State Hospital (1937-1985). The first 100 patients arrived at the newly opened Anoka Asylum in March 1900. The group of men who traveled by train from the St. Peter hospital was classified as “incurables.” The asylum was not originally built as a place for treatment. Rather, it was where most of these men would live out their days. According to historical records, 86 of those first 100 patients died there, and many were buried in numbered graves at the cemetery on the grounds.                                              
|Body=  The [[Belknap County Farm|two-story almshouse]] provided shelter for the county’s poor as well as the superintendent and his family. A poorly built, two-story stone jail stood next door to the almshouse. The first floor housed prisoners, while those deemed “insane” lived on the second floor in cells or “strong rooms.” There were no living spaces or sitting rooms provided for the insane. All of the county’s insane population at this time were sent from the State Hospital at Concord.                                              
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Featured Image Of The Week

The two-story almshouse provided shelter for the county’s poor as well as the superintendent and his family. A poorly built, two-story stone jail stood next door to the almshouse. The first floor housed prisoners, while those deemed “insane” lived on the second floor in cells or “strong rooms.” There were no living spaces or sitting rooms provided for the insane. All of the county’s insane population at this time were sent from the State Hospital at Concord.
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