Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/skalte/Lunatic+House-1.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/skalte/Lunatic+House-2.jpg.html In Ohio, the Wood County Historical Society Museum is located in the old county home, the "poorhouse". On the grounds is the old "Lunatic House" where people were housed then there weren't any better ideas about what to do with them. One could be housed in the Lunatic House for such "disturbances" as chronic fighting to post-partum depression to masturbation to epilepsy, in addition to illnesses we recognize today as true, serious mental illness. It also served as temporary jail space when the jail was full. It was state of the art for the times and probably as humane as could be expected for the turn of the 20th century. Its last occupancy was sometime in the early 1960s. C&C as always.... Sue