This reproduction of an original painting from 1947 shows an integrated school on the Carville campus. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection, Carville, LA.

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This reproduction of an original painting from 1947 shows an integrated school on the Carville campus. <br /> <br /> Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection, Carville, LA.

The first one-room schoolhouse at the Louisiana Leper Home was organized by the Daughters of Charity after their arrival in 1896.

In the earliest days, the Sisters and adult female patients served as teachers. In 1950, the Carville Patients' School was certified by the State of Louisiana and became part of the St. Gabriel system.

In the 1970s, when in-house treatment for Hansen's disease became voluntary, the school shifted to mostly adult education and continued to operate on site until the 1990s.

This file appears in: Carville Jail and Cottage Grove