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Central State Hospital, originally known as the Central Lunatic Asylum, is a psychiatric hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, United States.It was the first institution in the country for "colored persons of unsound mind".
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 ...
The hospital's rebuilt original 1774 building as it stands today in Williamsburg, Virginia. Eastern State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. Built in 1773, it was the first public facility in the present-day United States constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The original building had ...
The exhibit "The Evolving History of Central State Hospital 1869-2024" is at the Petersburg Public Library until September 30, 2024.
The Western State Hospital Complex is a national historic district that encompasses 22 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures. Notable buildings include the Dairy Barn (1927-1930, 1952), Milk House (1946), Boiler Plant (c. 1895), coal trestle (c. 1899), Wheary Building (1935), Laundry and Personnel Quarters (1865), Male and Female Patient Wards (Building #36, 1875), Byrd Building ...
Centra Health: Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital: Lynchburg: 317 Centra Health: Chesapeake Regional Medical Center: Chesapeake: 310 Private, nonprofit Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters: Norfolk: 212 Level I Private, nonprofit Affiliated with Eastern Virginia Medical School: Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU: Richmond: 208 [21]
Researchers excavated five unmarked graves at the cemetery in 1999 in an effort to find Samuel Washington’s resting place. They recovered small bones and teeth from three burials, but DNA ...
Anjette Lyles, American restaurateur responsible for the poisoning deaths of four relatives between 1952 and 1958 in Macon, Georgia, apprehended on May 6, 1958, and sentenced to death yet later was involuntarily committed due her to diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, died aged 52 on December 4, 1977, at the Central State Hospital, Milledgeville in Georgia.