Does anyone know more about the Wedmeyer Hospital in Taylor, TX?
The building is spooky looking in person, but also seems to have an amazing history. The trouble is that I have heard many different stories about what this place use to be. Some say it was an insane asylum for people who had lost their marbles. Others say it was a quarentined area for those in the 30’s or 40’s who got TB. Some say it was no more than a hosipital and eventually a retirement home…..anyone know anything different?
It is also known as the Taylor Sanitarium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanatorium
"A sanatorium (also sanitorium, sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, typically tuberculosis. A distinction is sometimes made between "sanitarium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium) and "sanatorium" (a hospital)."
1930 census there a 12 women listed as nurses living and working at the Taylor Sanitarium.
An "asylum" is a hospital for mentally disturbed or an unbalanced person. So unless the name was ever attached to this hospital, then I doubt it housed "people who lost their marbles".
Contact the Williamson County Historical or Genealogical Society for more information if they have it.
It is also known as the Taylor Sanitarium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanatorium
"A sanatorium (also sanitorium, sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, typically tuberculosis. A distinction is sometimes made between "sanitarium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium) and "sanatorium" (a hospital)."
1930 census there a 12 women listed as nurses living and working at the Taylor Sanitarium.
An "asylum" is a hospital for mentally disturbed or an unbalanced person. So unless the name was ever attached to this hospital, then I doubt it housed "people who lost their marbles".
Contact the Williamson County Historical or Genealogical Society for more information if they have it.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanatorium
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txwcgs/index.htm