Dsmc, LLC

Dsmc, LLC is an advocacy organization based in Hollywood, Florida, dedicated to restoring state hospital cemeteries in Massachusetts and other parts of the United States. Since beginning this work in 1997, the group has focused on identifying and properly memorializing the unmarked or numbered graves of former state hospital patients. Their primary goal is to push for individual grave markers bearing names rather than numbers, ensuring these cemeteries are at least as dignified as a pet cemetery.

The organization has documented abandoned cemeteries at Danvers State Hospital, where they found two cemeteries containing hundreds of former patients. They have also identified similar sites at Medfield State Hospital, Metropolitan State Hospital, Tewksbury Hospital, Boston State Hospital, Worcester State Hospital, Northampton State Hospital, and Grafton State Hospital.

At Danvers State Hospital, the organization discovered a total of 768 former patients buried in the larger of the two cemeteries. The smaller cemetery at the same location contains 93 numbered markers, which required significant landscaping work to uncover after years of overgrowth.

The group aims to place over 350 individual grave markers with names at the larger cemetery and a wall of remembrance listing the names of the 93 people buried in the smaller cemetery. They also plan to install landscaping, memorial features, and benches to commemorate the lives of the human beings who are buried there.

In addition to Massachusetts, the organization highlights related developments in Hawaii, where cemetery restoration efforts are underway. They also noted a historical example involving a golf course built over a cemetery at an asylum for 'insane indians' in Canton, South Dakota.

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The organization has been working on this advocacy since 1997, making it a long-standing group in the field of state hospital cemetery restoration. This history allows them to have documented abandoned cemeteries and led efforts to install grave markers over many years.

The business is located in Hollywood, Florida, with a listed address at 6400 Funston St. They also have a presence in Massachusetts where they conduct their primary advocacy work, and they have connections to developments in Hawaii.

The business phone number listed for Dsmc, LLC is 9548299417. The organization also maintains a website at http://www.dsmc.info where visitors can learn more about their work and how to get involved.

The website encourages visitors to 'Get Involved' and provides a 'Technical assistance manual on state hospital restoration' for Georgia DMH. It also highlights a formal apology offered by a Georgia DMH Medical Director and a position paper from state mental health directors supporting the cause.

Landscapers estimated that the smaller cemetery at Danvers State Hospital had 39 years worth of overgrowth. Farmers working in the surrounding fields had tossed piles of large rocks into the area, which looked like a briar patch but was actually a cemetery.

The website compares the numbered grave markers to a pet cemetery, stating that the cemeteries where former patients are buried should be at least as dignified as a pet cemetery. They show photographs of a numbered grave marker next to a pet cemetery to make this point.