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2. Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

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   The Virginia State Colony for the Epileptics and Feeble Minded was a state run institution for those considered to be “Feeble minded” or those with severe mental impairment. The colony opened in 1910 near Lynchburg, Virginia , in Madison Heights with the goal of isolating those with mental disabilities and other qualities deemed unfit for ...

3. Manassas, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Manassas (/ m ə ˈ n æ s ə s / [7]), formerly Manassas Junction, [8] is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. The population was 42,772 at the 2020 Census. [ 9 ] It is the county seat of Prince William County , although the two are separate jurisdictions. [ 10 ]

4. List of cities and counties in Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.

5. Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 - Wikipedia

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   The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 was a U.S. state law in Virginia for the sterilization of institutionalized persons "afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy”. [2] It greatly influenced the development of eugenics in the twentieth century.

6. Central State Hospital (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   In 1938 a State Colony for people with epilepsy was established on the grounds of the state hospital and later admitted the mentally disabled. It was renamed a training school and hospital in 1954 and then a training center in 1971.

7. Prince William County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The area encompassed by the 1731 act creating Prince William County originally included all of what later became the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, and Loudoun; and the independent cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park. Fairfax County was split from Prince William County in 1742, and first Loudoun ...