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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
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.
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.
A 1995 proposal to house the Museum in either the abandoned West Virginia owned Weston State Hospital (Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum) or former Danser Hardware & Supply Company building, both in Weston, was drawn-up. [11] Neither building was available but on October 1, 1996, a state grant was received to purchase a building to house the ...
Rep. Nancy Mace spars with trans activist who interrupts her at Georgetown summit: ‘Raging lunatic, pretending to be female’ Patrick Reilly November 22, 2024 at 9:47 AM
[11] [12] [13] In the Halloween special titled Ghost Adventures Live, which was broadcast from the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum on October 30, 2009, controversy arose when Robert Bess, inventor of the Parabot Containment Chamber (said to attract and empower spirits using energy, giving them form), claims to have had an EMF meter knocked ...
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 ...