Abandoned, Roadside and Historic: Salem County Insane Asylum

Constructed in 1870, the Salem County Insane Asylum is the only known surviving example of a first-generation county insane asylum in New Jersey. County asylums were constructed in response to the lack of state action to address overcrowding in state-run facilities in the late-nineteenth century. Gloucester County was the first in New Jersey to build a county-run asylum in 1869, followed by Salem and Cumberland Counties in 1870. The County Farm, as Salem’s asylum complex became known, was the site of county institutional poor relief as far back as 1796 up through 1951. The third county almshouse, demolished in 2007, was constructed there in 1845, and the asylum was situated adjacent to it when it was constructed.

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