Obviously, anything that could be written here about the Dexter Asylum itself would be woefully inadequate. (Serious students of the topic might try to get a hold of the latest in-progress version of the eight-years-in-the-making and still-unfinished dissertation being written by Brown PhD candidate Jonah West. West is an unapologetic alcoholic and three-time attempted suicide, but as off this writing, continues his academic history of the Asylum nevertheless.)
Of the wall around the Asylum, however, this much may be said: It originally was created with the intention of keeping various peoples and things in or out; these days it remains as a mostly decorative edifice. It was built via slave-labor - insane, untrained inmates - between the years of 1852 and 1886. Seven men died during it's construction. Four bodies were found. Every day at dawn during the winter months, the mortar seeps blood.
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