Re-Purposement Plan for Central State Hospital Goes to State Legislation

For years, buildings at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville have remained untouched, and unoccupied. Now, there’s a plan for the nearly 2,000 acre campus.

“We’ve lost an awful lot of our mental health capacity, treatment capacity over the last 25 years,” says Milledgeville Mayor Richard Bentley.

In the 1960s, thousands of patients inhabited the hospital, now there’s just 450. It’s not just diminishing numbers that plague the grounds.