Although the building was commissioned under the name “Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum,” it never actually held patients under ...

When West Virginia assumed control of the asylum in 1863, its name changed to the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane. By the early 1900s, it was known simply as Weston State Hospital ...

Allegany Lunatic Asylum, formerly known as the Weston State Hospital, 4,000 flags were placed in the 3 cemeteries by ...

Another example of the mass institutionalization of the mid-twentieth century is Weston State Hospital (formerly the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum) in Weston, West Virginia. A few years back ...

Never in the history of Columbus was there such a conflagration as that at the Lunatic Asylum, of which we gave a hasty and necessary partial account yesterday, as all ?? of rumors were Bring ...

Selina Baiss, from Shepton Mallet, was said to be "demented, incoherent and noisy" and had been an asylum patient ... Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum. "Patients who were put in there ...