Difference between revisions of "Portal:Featured Image Of The Week"

From Asylum Projects
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 1: Line 1:
 
{{FIformat
 
{{FIformat
−
|Image= Fernald01.png
+
|Image= Weston Hist 1904 MainHall.jpg
 
|Width= 350px  
 
|Width= 350px  
−
|Body= Social reformer Samuel Gridley Howe [[Fernald State School|founded the school in 1848]] with a $2,500 appropriation from the Legislature. Records of Dr. Howe and the beginnings of mental retardation services in the United States reside in Fernald’s Howe Library. Under its first resident superintendent, Walter E. Fernald (1887-1924), the school became a model educational facility in the field of mental retardation. In 1925, the Legislature passed a bill officially naming the school the Walter E. Fernald State School.
+
|Body= [[Weston State Hospital]] construction was begun by the State of Virginia before the separation of West Virginia from the mother state, the first appropriation having been made by the Legislature of Virginia, March 22, 1858. The institution was opened October 22, 1859, when nine patients were brought from Ohio, where they had been in temporary care awaiting the completion of the hospital. Dr. R. Hills, formerly of the Central Ohio Insane Asylum, was made superintendent and Dr. N. B. Barnes, assistant.
 
}}
 
}}

Revision as of 02:50, 22 June 2015

Featured Image Of The Week

Weston Hist 1904 MainHall.jpg
Weston State Hospital construction was begun by the State of Virginia before the separation of West Virginia from the mother state, the first appropriation having been made by the Legislature of Virginia, March 22, 1858. The institution was opened October 22, 1859, when nine patients were brought from Ohio, where they had been in temporary care awaiting the completion of the hospital. Dr. R. Hills, formerly of the Central Ohio Insane Asylum, was made superintendent and Dr. N. B. Barnes, assistant.
Retrieved from "http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Portal:Featured_Image_Of_The_Week&oldid=30247"