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Central State Hospital I6 |
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 Picture courtesy of John Musgrove.
Established in 1869 in temporary quarters at Howard’s Grove near Richmond. In 1870 it came under control of the state. In 1885 it was moved to the present location, the site of Mayfield Plantation which was purchased and donated to the state by the city of Petersburg. The first hospital in America exclusively for the treatment of mental disease in the negro.
Conservation & Development Commission 1935
Route 1 Dinwiddie County Virginia.
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