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Petersburg State Colony for the Negro Insane

The Petersburg State Colony for the Negro Insane was chartered in 1938. The residential care facility housed African Americans males who had intellectual disabilities between the ages of eight and twenty-one. The facility was located on the site of the now, Richard Bland College is located. A unit housing for 70 women was later added […]

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