Anyone who has any information on the Lakin State Hospital in Point Pleasant, West Virginia please post anything you know or have heard about it as a reply to this. I have been searching all over the net and have found very little information on this, so please anything you have to offer please reply with. Thank you for you time.
ATTENTION: Lakin State Hospital,Point Pleasant,West Virginia
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Posts: 0 (10/19/02 15:37:39) |
Found a couple of pieces of info on Google about this. It was a segregated institution for blacks, and the address is given as Lakin, not Point Pleasant. It was/is being converted to an adult female offender facility with scheduled completion date of September 2002. Also, check out Dr. Mildred Mitchell-Bateman, who was superintendent there; her story is at www.wvculture.org/history/bateman/html.
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Posts: 0 (12/04/02 20:26:55) |
Lakin State Hospital was once an insane assylum for blacks and is still there but not quite the same. There is a Maximum womens correction facility going in next to there but Lakin still remain as a hospital/retirement home.
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Posts: 0 (02/20/03 12:14:15) |
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I was born in Eckman, WV in 1943. Lived at Indian Ridge and graduated Elkhorn High School in 1961 a segregated Black Hi School. Presently, I am writing a book about my family. My mother was committed to Lakin State Hospital in 1954 or 1955 for a period of 3 to 6 months. I want to know more about the treatment, doctors, etc. Can you help? Matthew Carter I presently reside in Astoria, Oregon. |
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Posts: 1 (03/11/06 15:01:24) |
i live in gallipolis ohio which is only about 20-30 minutes away from lakin hospital...this building has been vacated for many years, all that stands now is the outer skeleton (very large brick building) a womens prison has been built right across the street, this hospital has not been used for anything for many years, most of what is heard is just urban legend...ive been by this hospital many times and get an eerie feeling when i see it, i have friends who have been inside this building and have been so scared they never go back, so in turn i cant find anyone to go with me...my husband has lived in this area his whole life and has told me stories that have made me cringe due to what happend inside of those walls...since it was an old time mental institution just about every kind of "torture" was used in order to make the paitents well, and that is not even the tip of the iceberg so to speak of all the horrors i have heard of this place....for anyone who is intrested i will be more than willing to send photos of this hospital...my email is lil_evil_dragon@msn.com
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I live in Middleport, Ohio which is about 15 minutes from Point Pleasant and, as badly as I hate to let everyone know, the old Lakin Mental Hospital is gone. The brick structure stood empty for years and was believed to be haunted. There are still tons of pictures of the eerie, vine covered building on the web but current pictures would be impossible. They even tore down the farm and outbuildings on the property and you can't even tell where the building once stood now. Sorry.
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