".....a troubling legacy of a time when the mentally ill were often warehoused and forgotten: Thousands of deceased indigent patients are buried at each site. The question of who will care for the graves has quietly arisen as officials prepare for the day, perhaps as early as January, 1997, when the last patients are moved out of the two-centuries-old institutions"

-Michael Slackman, "Who Will Take Care of 15,000 Graves?"