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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Weston, West Virginia: Inactive Formerly known as Weston State Hospital 78002805 [58] 1865 Mount Pleasant State Hospital: Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Destroyed 1936 Original Kirkbride building destroyed in fire — [59] [60] 1866 St. Peter State Hospital (now Minnesota Security Hospital) St. Peter, Minnesota: Active
Thomas Story Kirkbride (July 31, 1809 – December 16, 1883) was a physician, alienist, and hospital superintendent for the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and primary founder of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), the organizational precursor to the American Psychiatric Association.
Weston was founded in 1818 as Preston; the name was changed to Fleshersville soon after, and then to Weston in 1819. [6] The city was incorporated in 1846. [7]Weston is the site of the former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital and National Historic Landmark which has been mostly vacant since its closure in 1994 upon its replacement by the nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital.
The Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was initially organized by an act of the General Assembly passed on March 5, 1835. [5] The original hospital building, after three years of construction, was completed in 1838 at a cost of about $61,000. [1] [5] Dr. William M. Awl was elected as the first Medical Superintendent of the asylum. [5]
It's the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, which sounds as creepy you would think it is. Along with the ghost tours they offer six days of the week anyway, October provides the perfect opportunity ...
TAPS return to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, for their 200th episode, which finds the team reunited with Grant, Dustin and Joe.(the latter both from GHI) Included: Efforts are made to reach former patients who suffered tragic lives in the hospital.
State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary people aged 13 to 24 more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a recent survey conducted by the Trevor Project ...