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Forgotten Ruin In Australia: Tarban Creek Asylum

Tarban Creek Asylum, which was later renamed Gladesville in New South Wales, has a dark history. Opened in 1838, it’s perched on the coast of the Parramatta River in the Sydney suburb: Gladesville. The psychiatric hospital was known as the first asylum in the area.

The facility was initially intended for just 60 patients, but it’s reported that more than 100 people were admitted here by the 1840s.

A lot has been written about the horrific treatment that patients suffered at this asylum in its earlier years, including different versions of shock therapy and physical abuse.

Many of the patients were eventually buried on-site, leading to mass graves in this location, and the facility was ultimately closed in the 1990s. Today a bunch of haunting structures remain with overgrowth covering their wasting walls.