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Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a hospital and psychiatric hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. Established in 1876, it was Florida's only state mental institution until 1947. It currently has a capacity of 1,042 patients. The hospital's current Administration Building is on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
On March 1, 1847, the legislature established the Illinois State Asylum and Hospital for the Insane with a nine-member board of trustees that was empowered to appoint a superintendent, purchase land within four miles of Jacksonville, and construct facilities. (L. 1847, p. 52).
About 1854, he became superintendent of the Illinois State Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville and served in that position until 1869, when he resigned and established Oak Lawn Retreat, a private asylum in Jacksonville. Beyond his work in mental health, McFarland published on work of fiction, The Escape (Boston, 1851). In 1891, he hanged himself.
The fire destroyed the business district and rendered 10,000 residents homeless in the course of eight hours. Florida Governor William S. Jennings declared a state of martial law in Jacksonville and dispatched several state militia units to help. Reconstruction started immediately, and the city was returned to civil authority on May 17.
Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...
Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Wales, Wisconsin [17] 1907 Vermont Sanatorium Pittsford, Vermont [18] 1909 Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium: Booneville, Arkansas [10] 1909 Catawba Sanatorium Roanoke, Virginia [19] 1909 La Vina Sanitarium Altadena, California [20] 1909 San Haven Sanatorium Dunseith, North Dakota [21] 1910 Undercliff ...
The first patient received at the asylum, Edward Hedges, arrived on December 30, 1902, though he was described as an inmate. The second patient, named Hon sah sah hah, of the Osage people of ...
Elizabeth Packard spent the next three years at the Jacksonville Insane Asylum in Jacksonville, Illinois (now the Jacksonville Developmental Center). [4] [19] [7] [20] [21] She was regularly questioned by doctors, but refused to agree that she was insane or to change her religious views. In June 1863, due, in part, to pressure from her children ...