Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky

Creation Date

1848

Entity Type

Organization

Public mental health institution. Located in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Created in February 1848. First patients arrived in 1854. Main building destroyed by fire on November 30, 1861. Superintendent(s): Dr. S. Annan and Dr. James Rodman.

Charles Mayfield Meacham, A History of Christian County Kentucky from Oxcart to Airplane (Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1930), p. 296-98.
William Henry Perrin, ed., Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1884), 197-199.
William T. Turner, "Western State Hospital" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 944-45.

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