Lakin State Hospital, originally known as the Lakin State Hospital for the Colored Insane, was a publicly-funded psychiatric hospital located along
West Virginia Route 62
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in
Lakin,
Mason County, West Virginia near
Point Pleasant which operated from 1926 until 1979. During
segregation and
Jim Crow
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the Sout ...
, the asylum was designated by the State of West Virginia to care for the "colored insane". It would become one of only two known psychiatric institutions that was entirely ran by people of color serving an all black population.
References
Defunct hospitals in West Virginia
Psychiatric hospitals in West Virginia
Buildings and structures in Mason County, West Virginia
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