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The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane is a former state hospital in Willard, New York, United States, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1865 the Legislature authorized the establishment of The Willard Asylum for the Insane. [2] [3] Opened in 1869, the asylum offered low-cost custodial care. [4]
It was founded by the City of New York in 1885. It was named after Willard Parker, a prominent physician and surgeon, who at the time was a member of the Citizens' Association which called for the state legislature to establish an independent city health department. Parker later became the Vice President of the first New York City Board of Health.
Willard is a hamlet primarily in the Town of Romulus, Seneca County, New York, United States on the Ovid town It is located two miles (3 km) west of the Village of Ovid , at an elevation of 600 feet (183 m).
Willard Drug Treatment Campus was a specialized state prison in Seneca County, New York, United States.The prison focuses on treatment of drug-addicted convicts. Willard Drug Treatment Campus is located in Willard, a community in the Town of Romulus and is adjacent to Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes Region.
The 1892 New York state census is more vague, asking only for a country of birth (rather than a specific U.S. state or New York county of birth), not indicating relationships of various people to each other, and not indicating where new families begin on the census forms. [15] Indeed, the 1892 New York state census contained only seven ...
In the United States, vital records are typically maintained at both the county [1] and state levels. [2] In the United Kingdom and numerous other countries vital records are recorded in the civil registry. In the United States, vital records are public and in most cases can be viewed by anyone in person at the governmental authority. [3]
The hospital building is now used as a records archive for the New York State Office of Mental Health. [4] It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1989. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The building sits on the present-day campus of the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center along with newer buildings, some of which are still in use for psychiatric and other ...
As of the census [2] of 2000, there were 539 people, 215 households, and 150 families residing in the town. The population density was 15.1 people per square mile (5.8/km 2 ). There were 320 housing units at an average density of 9.0 per square mile (3.5/km 2 ).