My great-great-grandmother died in the "lunatic asylum" in Buchanan County in 1860s--where would that have been located at that time? Arless Eilerts [email protected] > The necessity of a permanent institution for the county insane was so > pressing that, in August, 1880, the judges appropriated $10,000 for this > purpose. A building with modern equipment and with a capacity of 150 > patients was completed in February of 1881. In this building the incurably > insane are kept. The county still maintains a number of patients at Asylum > No. 2 considered curable. > *****