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This database includes a list of names of patients who were admitted to Eastern State Hospital between 1924 and 1964 and still have medical records. These records are currently available at the archives. If you are interested in obtaining the records of a family member or ancestor, please check this list to verify that their name is listed.
Giving names to those that lived and died at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky.
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. 1824 cubic ft. These files provide a detailed record of treatment given to patients. The folders, which were created when the patients entered the hospital, give a chronological account of the patients' progress and status.
The Kentucky Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Fayette County, KY was established by a legislative act of December 4, 1822 and is the second oldest mental hospital in the United States. On May 1, 1824 the hospital, known then as the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, welcomed it's first patient.
Lexington, Kentucky Eastern State Hospital was organized in 1817 as Fayette Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. It is the second oldest institution in the United States devoted to the treatment of mental disorders.
Across the expansive campus of Eastern State Hospital, mass unmarked graves have been discovered since the 1980s. Traditionally, many patients without families or financial resources were buried at the hospital once they died.
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The Old and the New Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1766, the first U.S. public psychiatric hospital, Eastern State Hospital, was opened in Williamsburg, Va. Another Eastern State Hospital, shown above, has continuously functioned in Lexington, Ky., since 1824.
