Butterfield Asylum

Permanently Closed - The Temecula sun is famous for ripening the grapevines to level of perfection seen in only a handful of regions across the globe, but the desert sun in this place we call home also once had a dark side, melting the sanity of those poor souls who toiled endlessly to build the railroad through our golden state. In the mid-1800s Temecula hosted a mail stop on the national Butterfield Stage route, bringing messages from home to the brave pioneers forging life in the California wilderness, while prisoners and convicts forged the railroad that would eventually replace the Butterfield Stage route. These outcasts of society endured hard labor from sun-up to sun-down, and their bodies weren’t the only victims of the sun’s tireless gaze, their minds were lost, eaten away by the excruciating heat, leaving nothing but their most primal deviant inclinations behind. These Maniacs call Butterfield Asylum home - will you be the next patient?