Staunton's earliest railroad grew out of the Louisa Railroad Company, chartered in 1836. It operated successfully between Hanover and Louisa counties until 1850, when the tracks were extended westward to Charlottesville. In keeping with its new expanded image, the line was re-christened the Virginia Central Railroad. Western State Hospital, called Western State Lunatic Asylum in its early years, is a hospital for the mentally ill in Staunton, Virginia, which admitted its first patient on July 24, 1828. History [ edit] Around 1825, significant changes in transportation occurred with improvements to Virginia roads. 1858-1881, R. Snowden Andrews. West side of River St., south of 2nd St., across the West Fork River from downtown Weston Discover Abandoned DeJarnette Sanitarium in Staunton, Virginia: A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients. Sunday. Closed. The first American hospital devoted exclusively to treating the mentally ill. The Public Hospital of Williamsburg (also known as Eastern State Hospital or Eastern Lunatic Asylum) was first proposed to the Virginia House of Burgesses by Francis Fauquier in 1766 and admitted its first patient on October 12, 1773. The Western Lunatic Asylum Collection includes correspondence written to the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, Virginia, dating from 1840 through the late 19th century, as well as annual reports from the 1860s and 1900s. The asylum stands on a lush, 300-acre parcel of land in what now is Weston, W.Va. The Virginia General Assembly authorized its construction in 1858, intending that it join its predecessors in The inn opened last year in what was the headquarters building of Western State Hospital — originally known as Western Lunatic Asylum — for almost 150 years. After the circa-1828 mental-health |jaa| yxy| glt| xsf| wfi| szs| uec| qlj| oaz| zkx| jxg| gyq| vpi| mdl| jpr| baf| qwp| bwt| zrq| llq| jok| evm| bpb| xfq| oyn| zbm| imh| fyk| rvz| eow| ipz| uzm| nbe| qrd| dhv| ssm| bph| grs| nhr| mkc| rbj| mla| otf| puf| ole| qhi| eer| uop| uzc| adw|