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| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]] | | current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]] | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
− | + | Joseph S. DeJarnette, superintendent of Western State Hospital and a public advocate of Eugenics, created the sanitarium as a special pay unit of WSH until 1946 when the facility was seperated from the State Hospital and made into a sanitairum. then in 1972 the facility was changed into a child center. In 1996 the center moved to a new complex abandoning the original buildings. | |
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− | In 1996 | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
+ | *[http://www.ccca.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov/content/history.htm A brief time line of the center can be found here.] | ||
*[http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2006/07/13/ONARCH%20dejarnette-B.doc.aspx An article about the old campus can be found here.] | *[http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2006/07/13/ONARCH%20dejarnette-B.doc.aspx An article about the old campus can be found here.] | ||
+ | *[http://www.deenawarner.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=3 A photographic tour of the old campus can be found here.] | ||
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[[Category:Single Building Institutions]] | [[Category:Single Building Institutions]] | ||
[[Category:Closed Institution]] | [[Category:Closed Institution]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Virginia]] |