History of Ancora Psychatric Hospital

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ANCORA, N.J. — Recently, while Googling online sites related to Camden County history, I came across this description of Ancora and its Veterans Haven on Strange USA.com:

“(Veterans Haven) was once a town the psychiatric hospital made for patients to all live together. Many of the patients murdered each other; most of them are old vets from the war. Eventually, so many killings took place they just shut the whole town down. It has a lot of paranormal activity and the streetlights are still left on throughout the little deserted ghost town.”

Ancora Psychiatric Hospital is a 600-bed hospital located in the Ancora section of Winslow Township, New Jersey. Opened in 1955, the Ancora campus consists of 80 acres (32 ha). The hospital offers a multidisciplinary team approach to development and implementation of care. Ancora is the largest of the state’s five publicpsychiatric hospitals.  Although the hospital is located in Winslow, it is assigned a Hammonton mailing address.

Written by: Sandy Levins is the President of the Camden County Historical Society and proprietor of HistoricFauxFoods.com, a company that makes historically accurate fake foods for historic homes and museums.