Carville Driving Tour, STOP 2.mp3

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This file appears in: Federal Staff Housing, Site Utilities, The National Leprosarium

Federal Staff Housing, Site Utilities, The National Leprosarium

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA

The State of Louisiana ran this 450 acre site as the Louisiana Leper Home from 1894 to 1921. In 1921, the Federal Government purchased the site for $35,000; the patient census was about 300. The…