{"id":1220,"date":"2025-10-20T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/?page_id=1220"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:46:19","slug":"hawthorne-insane-asylum-1861-1883","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/?page_id=1220","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorne \u201cInsane\u201d Asylum (1861-1883)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-1.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_C._Hawthorne\">Dr. James Hawthorne<\/a>, who co-founded Oregon\u2019s first mental hospital. The Oregon Hospital for the Insane, also called the Hawthorne Asylum, operated in Portland from 1861 to 1883. It was widely believed that Block 14 had been the location of burials for both people of Chinese ancestry and patients of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane. However, records showed that many patients had been buried at Block 10, about 150 feet north of Block 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This block was called \u201cthe asylum grounds\u201d in old cemetery records.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-2-233x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-2-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-2-795x1024.png 795w, https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-2-768x989.png 768w, https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HawthorneAsylum-2.png 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In January 1867, the first recorded OHI patient was buried at the cemetery. The OHI had a contract with the cemetery to bury deceased patients who were unclaimed by family. It is believed that Hawthorne personally paid for 132 patients to be buried within Lone Fir, when family could or would not pay for burial. In 1889, the old Hawthorne Asylum building burned to the ground, leaving few records of the patients who \u2013 whether willingly or unwillingly \u2013 called it home for so many decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James Hawthorne, who co-founded Oregon\u2019s first mental hospital. The Oregon Hospital for the Insane, also called the Hawthorne Asylum, operated in Portland from 1861 to 1883. It was widely believed that Block 14 had been the location of burials for both people of Chinese&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/?page_id=1220\">Read Full Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1220\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}