Carville's water treatment plant. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.
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Water treatment plant seen from vantage point: foreground front left, cold storage building (no longer exists); background left, staff residential area.
This file appears in: Federal Staff Housing, Site Utilities, The National Leprosarium
Federal Staff Housing, Site Utilities, The National Leprosarium
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…